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China’s One Child Left Behind

Beijing's family-planning rules are slipping as the rich and powerful break the single-baby rule.

By Melinda Liu | NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Jan 28, 2008

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  • Posted By: Imaginary Tree @ 01/14/2009 1:12:00 AM

    ???Urban yuppies like Xiao resort to numerous tactics to skirt the law. Some simply pay the penalty, which can be as high as $130,000. In Shenyang, meanwhile, one entrepreneur paid nearly $20,000 to a surrogate mother to bear him an additional child. ???
    $130,000?Are you sure about the amount? According to you, " In Shenyang, meanwhile, one entrepreneur paid nearly $20,000 to a surrogate mother to bear him an additional child", by using the word "nearly" you may want to emphasize how expensive is this. But $20,000 is really nothing compared with $130,000. How can the figure $130,000 be ture?

  • Posted By: karley @ 01/21/2008 1:17:51 AM

    as a newsman, should report the fact, some west pressmen don't respect fact and never seriously investigate, just assume sth and listen from sb. In this news, there are some serious and obvious erros, such as "rural citizens, who still comprise more than 60 percent of the population and are allowed a second child if their first is a girl." In China, all families should have one child unless the first is disable.

    • Posted By: Saish @ 01/31/2008 2:14:59 AM

      And you should also know the fact too. In China, rural citizens are allowed a second child if thier first is a girl. That is true. Besides, the ethnic minorities also have the right to have two childs

  • Posted By: runnh @ 01/22/2008 3:09:32 AM

    karley, in our county ,rural citizens can have another child if they have g girl and they have measure up legal age.

  • Posted By: Grunt @ 01/22/2008 3:01:51 AM

    Good article

  • Posted By: Grunt @ 01/22/2008 2:58:39 AM

    How can Deng Shanhong do that?

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