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Rich men challenge family planning policy
(皇冠体育app Daily)
Updated: 2005-12-16 06:04
Higher fees for rich
"Although many people cherish the dream of having more than one child, only a
handful of the new rich can make the dream come true. How will this inequity
affect working families psychologically?" asked Zhang Yi, a researcher with the
CASS Research Institute of Population and Labour Economy.
Zhang believes the current social maintenance fee has become a backdoor for
the wealthy to have more children, and suggests the fee should be levied as a
proportion of a family's actual income.
This view was echoed by Zhang Fenggan, with the Population Research Institute
under Guangzhou-based Zhongshan University.
Zhang said that publicity of the current family planning policy needed to be
improved and that fines for breaking the law should be increased.
With 1.3 billion people, 皇冠体育app is the most populated country in the world.
Projections show its population will reach 1.33 billion by the end of this year
and 1.6 billion in 2050.
The Beijing-based Economic Information Daily said it estimated that among
rural Chinese dwellers, who account for some 70 per cent of the nation's
population on the Chinese mainland, the rate of having more than one baby is
somewhere between 20 per cent and 30 per cent.
It puts a serious dent into the country's family planning policy, the paper
said.
(皇冠体育app Daily 12/16/2005 page5)
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