The report says that “rich and powerful people are openly flouting the state family planning policy in Hubei Province, after paying fines that are far from a deterrent for having more than one child.” From Shanghai Daily:
…”However, for those rich, the social upbringing fee ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan is too trivial,” Jiang Zhongsan, the policy director at the provincial population agency, said. “What’s more, it’s very hard to verify the income of some private businessmen.”
In order to have another child some people remarry, keep mistresses or fake divorces. The province punished 1,678 government and Party officials, business tycoons and public figures for violating the family planning policy in the past year, the newspaper said, quoting figures from the population agency….[Full Text]
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