Chinese Media Asked to Propagate Population Control

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, December 28, 2001

Chinese Media Asked to Propagate Population Control

Owing to the reasons that the elderly, the working age and the floating populations have all reached the summit period and the low birth rate is not yet stable, the Chinese media should make more effort to report the present state of China's population control and family planning, an official said Thursday in Beijing.

Family planning positively promoted by media

The Chinese media should make more effort to report the present state of China's population control and family planning, an official said Thursday in Beijing.

Pan Guiyu, vice minister in charge of the State Family Planning Commission (SFPC), said China's total population, and the elderly, the working age and the floating populations have all reached the summit period.

At the same time, the low birth rate is not yet stable and varies in different regions. Family planning staff can not meet the demands of the new situation, Pan said at a ceremony for the 7th China Population News Awards.

In order to solve the problem, family planning should be positively promoted. Newspapers, magazines, radio, TV and the Internet should play an important role in family planning education, Pan added.

News and programs on population control awarded

On Thursday awards were given to 111 news stories, radio and TV programs on population control and family planning. The awards, the highest of their kind in China, are jointly sponsored by SFPC and the All-China Journalists Association.

A story from the Xinhua, titled "No Mandate for Sterilization in Tibet: Official", and 15 other articles and radio and TV programs received top awards, while 37 took second place, and 58 third place.

The awards were established in 1993 and given every two years, but were changed to a yearly basis in 1997.

The period to come will usher in "four peaks" in the development of population in China, says Zhang Weiqing, director of the State Family Planning Commission October 6 in Beijing. That is the "four peaks" in total population, in age group of labor force, the aged people and, floating and immigrating population.

In China, there still exist many problems between the population and family planning, indicates Zhang Weiqing and they are made to reveal in the following "Five Not".

First of all, it shows an unsteady low birthrate.

Secondly, it embodies in the unbalanced development from region to region.

Thirdly, the work efficiency is not sufficiently high as a whole.

Fourthly, the family planning contingents are not qualified enough to cater to the needs as required by the new situation and new tasks.

Fifthly, blind optimism and a passive feeling of fearing difficulties still rest in the minds of some Party and government cadres and family planning workers in quite a few regions of the country.

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