Nearly 2,000 Hunan Province Officials Violated China's One-Child Policy, Family Planning Commission Finds

The family planning commission for central China's Hunan province recently reported nearly 2,000 officials who had violated the national one-child-per-family policy from 2000 to 2005, the AP/International Herald Tribune reports (AP/International Herald Tribune, 7/8). China's one-child-per-family policy seeks to keep the country's population, now 1.3 billion, at about 1.7 billion by 2050. Methods of enforcing the policy, such as fines and work demotions, vary among Chinese provinces and cities (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 6/1). According to provincial family planning commission, 1,968 officials -- including 21 national and local lawmakers, 24 political advisers, 112 entrepreneurs and six senior intellectuals -- in the Hunan province violated the policy, Reuters India reports (Reuters India, 7/8). Many of the violations were uncovered during investigations for corruption, AFP/Yahoo! News reports (AFP/Yahoo! News, 7/8).

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