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Article: Family planning to feed on governmental appropriation
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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Family planning to feed on governmental appropriation
BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- China will finance its family
planning sector with governmental appropriation to keep the machine
working effectively, a Chinese official said here Sunday.
Zhang Weiqing, Minister in charge of the State Family Planning
Commission, said the Population and Family Planning Law, which comes
into effect Sunday, has laid a legal foundation for the country's
family planning work to get financial appropriation from governments
at all levels.
Family planning is a national policy of China, which calls for
each couple to have no more than one child. However, the family