China to stick with one-child policy

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BEIJING – China will continue to limit most families to just one child in the coming decades, state media said Monday, despite concerns about the policy's problematic side effects, such as too few girls and a rapidly aging population.

China has the world's largest population and credits its 30-year-old family planning limits with preventing 400 million additional births and helping break a traditional preference for large families that had left many trapped in cycles of poverty.

There has been growing speculation among Chinese media, experts and ordinary people about whether the government would relax the policy soon, allowing more people to have two children. A family planning official in the southern province of Guangdong on Saturday predicted his province would loosen the restrictions by 2015, and possibly scrap the one-child limit by 2030.

But the China Daily newspaper on Monday quoted Li Bin, head of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, as saying there were no plans to change the policy anytime soon.

"Historical change doesn't come easily, and I, on behalf of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, extend profound gratitude to all, the people in particular, for their support of the national course," Li was quoted as saying at an event Saturday marking three decades since the policy was introduced.

"So, we will stick to the family planning policy in the coming decades," she said.

The strict family planning rules, which limit urban couples to one child and rural couples to two, have curbed China's population growth but brought new problems, such as an expanding elderly population that demographers say will be increasingly hard to support as the young labor force begins shrinking over the next few years.

The policy is also blamed for the country's skewed sex ratio. Chinese families with a strong preference for boys sometimes resort to aborting their baby girls, a practice which has upset the ratio of male to female babies. Demographers worry the imbalance will make it hard for men to find wives and could fuel the trafficking of women and children as brides.

The male-female ratio at birth in China is about 119 males to 100 females, with the gap as high as 130 males for every 100 females in some provinces. In industrialized countries, the ratio is 107 to 100.

In an interview with local media on Saturday, the director of Guangdong's family planning commission, Zhang Feng, said he expected the policy there would loosen after the current national five-year plan is complete, or around 2015.

"I predict if population control remains on course and meets its targets, Guangdong is likely to let couples in which one of the two parents is an only child to have a second child," he said in an interview with the Yangcheng Evening News. "And after 2030, any Guangdong couple could have a second child. That's just my personal view."

[banti321]

ee madhya evaro prof ki rendo child puditey ujjogam peekesaranta !q# sCo_hmmthink

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[quote author=ChittinnaraNaidu link=topic=102962.msg1094911#msg1094911 date=1285609548]
ee madhya evaro prof ki rendo child puditey ujjogam peekesaranta !q# sCo_hmmthink
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alane undalemo mama.....atleast mana indialo ithe.......lekapothe choodu mama janabha perigpothondhi inspite of intha awareness.....ippudu mostly educated families and industrialised areas lo 3 children ki father ithene edho theda ga chusthunnaru......2 is good......max families nenu chusinavatilo ippudu pellina generation in 21st century is 2......one ithe the best......so ippudu inka awarenss tiskuravali among rural areas and illiterate...lekapothe future mana country ki baaga prob avutundhi.......acc to me anni dharidralaki population eh kaaranam......china realised this and it is implementing nd improving.....

[Papa Rao]

[quote author=ChittinnaraNaidu link=topic=102962.msg1094911#msg1094911 date=1285609548]
ee madhya evaro prof ki rendo child puditey ujjogam peekesaranta !q#
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[quote author=wikibow link=topic=102962.msg1095004#msg1095004 date=1285611468]
alane undalemo mama.....atleast mana indialo ithe.......lekapothe choodu mama janabha perigpothondhi inspite of intha awareness.....ippudu mostly educated families and industrialised areas lo 3 children ki father ithene edho theda ga chusthunnaru......2 is good......max families nenu chusinavatilo ippudu pellina generation in 21st century is 2......one ithe the best......so ippudu inka awarenss tiskuravali among rural areas and illiterate...lekapothe future mana country ki baaga prob avutundhi.......acc to me anni dharidralaki population eh kaaranam......china realised this and it is implementing nd improving.....
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correcte baa....but perige jananiki enough resources manaki unnai politicians tinakapote (of course adi impossible anuko...) sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink

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[quote author=Papa Rao link=topic=102962.msg1095135#msg1095135 date=1285613768]
correcte baa....but perige jananiki enough resources manaki unnai politicians tinakapote (of course adi impossible anuko...) sCo_hmmthink sCo_hmmthink
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thakkuva janam unte inka organised ah resources vadukovachu mama....inka scarcity kuda lekunda plenty ga untay........daridram undhi kabatte politicians kooda deepam undagane illu chakkadidukovalanattu padhavi unde time lone docheskuntunnaru generations ki saripada......most of the politicians inthe..... !q# !q#