Hunan announces planned parenthood regulations
Daily Report. People's Republic of China 1: P2-P3
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0892-0141 PMID: 12338060 Document Number: 500712
The Hunan Provincial Revolutionary Committee has promulgated trial regulations on several questions relating to planned parenthood in order to ensure that population growth corresponds to the development of the national economy and to speed up socialist modernization. The regulations propose that each couple of reproductive age ideally produces only 1 child and not more than 2 children. Couples who marry late and produce only 1 child will be commended and rewarded. The country and muncipal planned parenthood offices will issue a "1 child certificate." Cadres and workers in units under ownership by the whole people or by the collective will receive an annual bonus of 30-40 yuan, and rural peasants will receive an annual bonus of 400 work points. These bonuses will be issued until their child is 14 years old. A single child for whom a certificate has been issued will receive priority in admission to the nursery and kindergarten as well as in hospital treatment. Such a child will also receive priority in personnel recruitment. These couples will receive priority in urban housing, and rural couples will receive private plots and housing areas of a 2 child standard. When retiring because of old age, cadres and workers will receive an extra retirement allowance of 5% for both husband and wife. If a couple has a 2nd child after receiving the rewards and bonuses, the bonuses and bonus work points must be returned along with their 1 child certificate. The regulations point out that every Chinese citizen has the right and duty to practice and publicize planned parenthood and that economic sanctions are to be levied against couples of reproductive age who refuse to practice planned parenthood and produce many children. This also applies to cadres and workers who produce a 3rd child.