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Article: China encourages voluntary family-planning efforts in rural areas
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- January 10, 2003
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China encourages voluntary family-planning efforts in rural areas
BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Family-planning efforts conducted by
Chinese rural residents voluntarily have become an important
component of China's overall family-planning program, according to
Zhang Weiqing, minister in charge of the State Family Planning
Commission.
Speaking at the national work conference on family planning,
which concluded here on Thursday, Zhang said China encourages
voluntary family planning activities in rural areas and has been
trying to turn the project from an administrative order into a
voluntary choice among the rural population.
The rights of people in deciding their family size should ...