As of the end of August, of all the 21,249 couples who filed birth applications, 19,363 have been given the permit, according to statistics released on Sunday by Beijing Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning.
Of all the granted applicants, around 56 percent are women aged between 31 to 35, according to the birth watchdog.
It also said that another 537 are women aged above 40.
At the end of last year, China relaxed the decades-old one-child policy which was designed to curb population growth.
A majority of the Chinese provinces, including the most populated, Henan, have allowed couples to have a second child if either parent is an only child. Beijing followed suit on Feb. 21.
Before the policy was adopted, both parents must be sole children to be eligible for a second child.
- The relaxation came as the world's second largest economy is coping with a declining labor force and an aging population.
Demographic experts have said the easing will help promote balanced population growth in the country.
Under the one-child policy, many couples, particularly in China's countryside, had abortions as they prefer boys to girls. This led to a wide gender gap of 118 male births versus 100 female births in 2010.
Sources:Xinhua - globaltimes.cn
7/9/14
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A couple is appealing a 200,000 Yuan ($32,519) fine for breaking China’s one-child policy, saying that it shouldn't affect them as their first child was born in Hong Kong....
ReplyDeleteThe South China Morning Post reported Tuesday that the couple had appealed after losing a lawsuit against authorities in the rich southern Chinese province of Guangdong.
Their suit had claimed that their first child - born in 2008 - was not born on the mainland, and therefore should not be counted under the policy.
The mother gave birth to the second child in a city on Guangdong's southern coast in 2009 and was subsequently fined the “social support fee” of almost 200,000 Yuan - a fine mainland parents must pay for having a second baby.
The post reported that the mother - a Guangdong resident - had argued that she should be exempted because her situation was “essentially the same” as conditions set out in Chinese Family Planning Commission rules that suggest that mainland couples who have a "second" child in Hong Kong are exempt from the fee.
She said that her first child had been registered as a Hong Kong resident and had not returned to live in mainland China, adding that the only difference with the Commission's rules was the order in which her children had been born....................http://www.aa.com.tr/en/news/429569--chinese-couple-appeals-one-child-policy-fine
2/12/14