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Article: China rewards rural couples practicing family planning with specialallowances
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 3, 2005
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China rewards rural couples practicing family planning with
special allowances
by Xinhua writer Fan Xi
BEIJING, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Wang Xiuluan, a 68-year-old farmer in
central China's Henan Province, and her 70-year-old husband never
expected a reward for a decision they made 30 years ago.
Like many others in China's countryside, Wang and her 70-year- old
husband tilled the soil for most of their life. With only two
daughters and no son in a rural economy that depended so much on male
labor in the 1970s, the couple chose not to have another child, even
though China's family planning policy allowed them to do so.
The decision has paid off. Starting from 2004, China began to
implement a ...