Child policy relaxation after mudslide disaster
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August 6, 2011, Saturday
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CHINA has relaxed its family planning policy for women who lost children in a massive mudslide that hit a northwestern county a year ago.
Surgery to untie the tubes of mothers who'd had the procedure as a result of past enforcement of the family planning policy, is now free in Zhouqu, officials said yesterday, ahead of the anniversary of the mudslide that left more than 1,700 people dead or missing in the county in Gansu Province on August 8, 2010.
Liang Jianjun, head of Zhouqu's family planning bureau, said such operations had been performed on women from 27 families. "Some of these women are pregnant now," he said.
China restricts most urban families to one child but grants favorable treatment to families in the countryside and ethnic regions.
In Zhouqu, rural families can have two children while those in five Tibetan-dominated towns and villages can have three.
Families who lost their children are allowed new births to fill the "quotas," officials said.
Yang Chaomei, the matriarch of a local family that lost all eight children in the mudslide, said she was pleased to see two daughters-in-law give birth after the disaster. "I hope I can have a grandson who will inherit the family line," she said.
Besides the policy adjustment, a government-affiliated association said it would give a cash subsidy of 10,000 yuan (US$1,550) to each of the 225 single mothers in Zhouqu who live below the poverty line.
Han Keyin, head of the women's federation of Gansu, said there were about 500 families with single mothers who needed help. The federation also provides psychological counseling to help single mothers deal with post-disaster trauma.
Meanwhile, reconstruction in the county is in full swing. Work crews have started 108 of 170 reconstruction projects, said Xia Hongmin, a governor assistant and head of a local panel in charge of coordinating the projects.
All are due to be completed by the end of 2012, while the construction of residential buildings, schools and medical institutes should be finished this year.
Surgery to untie the tubes of mothers who'd had the procedure as a result of past enforcement of the family planning policy, is now free in Zhouqu, officials said yesterday, ahead of the anniversary of the mudslide that left more than 1,700 people dead or missing in the county in Gansu Province on August 8, 2010.
Liang Jianjun, head of Zhouqu's family planning bureau, said such operations had been performed on women from 27 families. "Some of these women are pregnant now," he said.
China restricts most urban families to one child but grants favorable treatment to families in the countryside and ethnic regions.
In Zhouqu, rural families can have two children while those in five Tibetan-dominated towns and villages can have three.
Families who lost their children are allowed new births to fill the "quotas," officials said.
Yang Chaomei, the matriarch of a local family that lost all eight children in the mudslide, said she was pleased to see two daughters-in-law give birth after the disaster. "I hope I can have a grandson who will inherit the family line," she said.
Besides the policy adjustment, a government-affiliated association said it would give a cash subsidy of 10,000 yuan (US$1,550) to each of the 225 single mothers in Zhouqu who live below the poverty line.
Han Keyin, head of the women's federation of Gansu, said there were about 500 families with single mothers who needed help. The federation also provides psychological counseling to help single mothers deal with post-disaster trauma.
Meanwhile, reconstruction in the county is in full swing. Work crews have started 108 of 170 reconstruction projects, said Xia Hongmin, a governor assistant and head of a local panel in charge of coordinating the projects.
All are due to be completed by the end of 2012, while the construction of residential buildings, schools and medical institutes should be finished this year.
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