China is to bring in new financial incentives to encourage people in rural areas to have fewer children in another bid to control its rising population.
From next year, parents in the countryside will get an annual payment when they reach the age of 60, provided they have only one child, or two girls.
A lack of social security in rural areas has encouraged some families to break China’s one-child policy. [Full Text]
China in rural birth control bid – BBC
Posted by Xiao Qiang | Oct 16, 2006
Categories : Society,The Great Divide