Revised Regulation on Population and Family Planning in Beijing to Come into Effect on Sep.1

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Revised Regulation on Population and Family Planning in Beijing to Come into Effect on Sep.1

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The recently revised Regulation on Population and Family Planning in Beijing Municipality relaxes restrictions on the age of the women who are allowed to have a second baby and the interval of childbearing. The new regulation will come into effect on September 1, 2003.

According to Deng Xingzhou, director-general of Beijing Family Planning Commission, the previous regulation stipulates that Beijing citizens are permitted to have a second child in nine specific cases. However, two conditions need to be met. First, the interval of childbearing should be no less than four years. And second, the women should at least be 28 years old. Considering that the too late age for bearing a second child is disadvantageous to the health and safety of both the mother and baby, the newly passed regulation relaxes a little bit by allowing the couples to meet just one of the aforementioned two conditions.

More subsidies given to one-child families

The new regulation first proposes to render assistance to one-child families in difficulty. According to the regulation, local district or county governments should give a lump-sum financial aids of no less than 5000 yuan to the parents if their only child has lost the ability to work or died by accident, and they do not bear any child or adopt none with the wife reaching the age of 55 and the husband 60 years of age.

Each of one-child parents will be granted at least 1000 yuan when reaching certain ages.

One-child families will receive a monthly grant of 10 yuan until the child grows to 18 years old.

Nine classifications of couples allowed to have a second child

First, the couple only has a child, who, diagnosed as non-hereditary handicapped, will not grow into a normal labor.

Second, both spouses are only children and have one child.

Third, the couple who remains sterile for over five years and is diagnosed as sterility starts to have a baby after having adopted a child.

Fourth, the remarried couple only has one child.

Fifth, before being transferred into Beijing from border areas minority nationality employees have been authorized to have a second child by local family planning departments above county level.

Sixth, two or more brothers are rural citizens; only one couple has the child-bearing ability and only has one child, while other brothers do not adopt children.

Seventh, a male rural citizen marries a woman who has no brothers and settles down in the wife's family and promises in written form to support her parents.

Eighth, a spouse of rural citizens is a second-class wounded and disabled soldier or loses the basic ability to work.

Finally, rural citizens, who live in remote mountains and whose main source of income is farm production, have only one child and have practical living difficulties.

By PD Online Staff Zhu Lizhen

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