The Portrait of an Olympic Host: Only the rich can breed more offspring
! -- China to impose massive fines on parents breaking 1-child rule

-- Micky's comment: Now only the rich can breed more offspring in The
paradise of Chinese socialism. What a country! --

July 25th, 2007

Breitbart | Jul 25, 2007

BEIJING ― Central China's Hunan Province will impose massive fines on
wealthy parents who break the nation's one-child policy, state media
reported Wednesday.

The official Xinhua News Agency said the much heavier penalties are to
be introduced after the provincial family planning commission found that
nearly 2,000 government officials and what it described as “celebrities”
had contravened China's family planning laws in recent years.

A national government survey carried out last year also said the
majority of wealthy Chinese now have two children, with 10 percent
having three.

An unnamed official with Hunan's family planning commission told Xinhua,
“The current penalties are too low for well-off people and we are
raising them to ensure social justice.”

Couples in Hunan who have a second child illegally are now fined double
their combined annual income. After the new laws are introduced they
could be fined up to seven times their yearly salaries.

Parents found to have illegitimate second children could be fined up to
10 times their annual earnings, the report said.

Hunan Gov. Zhou Qiang in April ordered local officials to “expose the
celebrities and high-income people who violate the family planning
policy and have more than one child,” said Xinhua.

The southern province of Guangdong introduced similar tougher fines five
years ago to deter high-income families from breaking family planning laws.

The vast majority of Chinese couples can only have one child, although
the restrictions are sometimes relaxed in rural areas and among China's
ethnic minority groups.

Riots broke out in parts of the southern region of Guangxi earlier this
year after the authorities tried to collect fines, or seize the
property, of families deemed to have broken family planning regulations.

The so-called one-child policy was introduced in 1979 in an attempt to
control China's rapidly growing population.

The head of the National Population and Family Commission, Zhang
Weiqing, said earlier this year it was essential that the policy
continue to be strictly enforced if the government is to succeed in
bringing the population under control.