China one-child rule "to remain"

Officials admit the one-child rule is often flouted by richer families The Chinese leadership has denied suggestions that it is about to alter its controversial one-child policy.

Family planning chief Zhang Weiqing said there would be no change in the rule limiting families in cities to one child and those in rural areas to two.

His comments come a week after another family planning official said a policy change was under discussion.

The rule has been blamed for creating a gender imbalance, with families eager to have boys rather than a girls.

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this is a follow up to a post i made last week. china has come out and said that they will not get rid of the one child rule, this is significant because now china's arms are still flexed on the issue of the one child. so mark one up for the chinese government

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China thinking of revoking one child rule

Family planning chief Zhao Baige told reporters she wanted an "incremental" change in the policy.

But there are not yet any specific proposals or a timetable for change, and she said some form of population control would remain in place.

Families in China's cities are restricted to one child, and those in rural areas to two children.
But the BBC's Dan Griffiths in Beijing says many wealthy Chinese are having large families and choosing to pay the standard fines for having more than one child.

Ms Zhao said it was common practice for some families in cities to have two or even three children.

And she expressed concern that China faces a huge disparity in numbers of females to males, as families in rural provinces continue to favour boys over girls.

"[In Henan there are] nearly 100 million people, but strongly influenced by the classical way, they want a son, and they are already very fragile environmentally," Reuters quoted her as saying.

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This is very significant to China because if they change the one child rule, one Chinas' population will grow even faster and second that this rule has been around for years as a sign of communism and it shows how they are begging to change there ways

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