China will maintain its one-child policy per family

The Government China said it will maintain its family planning policy r, whose pillar is that each couple has one child, despite possible changes raised by the aging population and other demographic problems. This was stated by Wang Xia, head of the Chinese Family Planning Commission, adding that "this policy should stay long term , with the primary objective of maintaining a low birth rate, "as quoted by the official Xinhua news agency. Thus, dissipates the possibility that, as official Chinese newspaper published the China Daily in late November, will implement changes to control the number of children per family, and expand the criteria to allow couples living in urban areas can have a second child. Today, in cities only those couples in which both partners are only children are allowed to have two children. In rural areas, are allowed a second child if the first child is a girl. Far more flexible the rules, the authorities reported that expand the inspection of pregnancies nationwide and facilitate access to the migrants themselves, said Wang. According to the official, these services are now available in about sixty percent of the rural areas, so that cover 80 percent of the population.

A controversial issue

The control pregnancies is a thorny issue in China , and although the country's law does not specify the frequency of testing to determine if a woman is pregnant, in some areas they are conducted at least once per quarter. This is what happens on the Shangluo area, in the northeastern province of Shaanxi, where since last week, officials will have to undergo this quarterly monitoring by local authorities for family planning, said then the government newspaper Global Times . Activists known as the blind dissident Chen Guangcheng , who resides in the U.S. since he fled house arrest in northeast China last year, have strongly denounced the forced abortions and sterilizations practiced in the Asian power to ensure birth control. The one-child policy, very unpopular in the country, was established in late 1970 to stop the overpopulation of giant and, according to government statistics, has managed to stop the annual population growth of 1.35 million people per year in new 1980 to 630,000 today. The Chinese fertility rate-the average number of children per woman is now at 1.7 percent, below the 2.1 percent that is considered necessary to maintain population levels.