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How Rudong County’s birth-control policy brought pride, controversy
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THE birth-control policy was started in Rudong County during the 1960s, making it one of the first areas to do so in China.
Its experience was used as propaganda across the nation and it earned the “National Red Flag County of Birth Control” and the “National Pioneer and Model of Birth Control” awarded by the State Council.
A local website has even run news about farmer Ji Fangzhen’s family in Chahe Town, famed for its four generations of girls (one girl, one generation). They all gave up the right to have second births to try for a son, even though it was allowed in China’s villages.
The news report said the "feudal" idea of preferring boys to girls has been rooted out in the town. It was also praised by the leaders from the National Population and Family Planning Commission.
In 2011, Rudong County applied for establishing a China Contraceptive Medicine and Tools Museum. In a display of how sentiments have changed, the idea aroused big disputes on the website and in the nation, and no museum has been built.
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