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No change to family planning policy now
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-22 09:48 China will not change its
family planning policy for now as it prepares for its fourth baby boom in 50
years, said a senior family planning official here Tuesday.
Zhang Weiqing, minister in charge of the National Population and Family
Planning Commission, said that China had baby booms in the early 1950s, 1960s
and the late 1980s. The fourth is expected between 2006 and 2010.
China has nearly 100 million people who were raised in single-child families
and many of them have approached their child bearing age.
Also the children of rural couples, which have been allowed to have more than
one child if their first is a girl since the mid-1980s, will soon starting
having babies of their own.
"To maintain the current low birth rate, the family planning policy must not
change," he said during an online interview at the government's website. The
pending baby boom is not expected to be large and the country hopes to maintain
a relatively low birth rate.
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