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Article: China to Make Population, Family Planning Law

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December 24, 2000
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China will draft up a law on population and family planning and related regulations next year to ensure the status of the national policy of family planning and the realization of birth control targets, said an official Sunday.

The government has set forth its five-year, ten-year and fifty- year targets for its population control and development program, according to a white paper released by the State Council last week.

By 2005, China aims to keep its population within 1.33 billion (excluding the population of the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan Province), and the figure will be controlled within 1.4 billion by 2010, and will peak at nearly 1.6

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