yes i have to admit that the rich and power always break law,not only on family planing but also in every aspects of the society. the rich and power always come together. if you have money you can “buy” power in china.at the same time own power equals own money…
thats ture.
the corruption problem always exist in china,i assume its also exist in other countries ,just not serious as china.
chinese value are also changing with the economic developing.
most of people aim at money and power.
The corruption proplem being with every part of china.

on the family planing,it helped to control the number of chinese population
but now the rich and power can over the law. its a complicate policy in china. but we should know with the economic developing more and more chinese family choose 1 child,cause they increasing realize that its not easy to bring up a child for an ordinary chinese family no matter in cities or countries.

In response to the original report, the Hunan People’s Congress is ramping up the fines proportional to the income of the offenders. It’ll supposedly be 2-6 times their annual salary per kid … I guess that’s current market value!

Since my first week teaching here, I too learned that I needed to quickly clarify what I mean by “brother” or “sister”. From what I could find out, the student in question literally had 16 siblings … I grilled him, his classmates, and even one of the siblings about it!

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The way people see it here and the way that I see things are often very different. To me, a person who breaks a law and is punished for it (with a fine, jail sentence, or even execution) still broke that law. For example, when I speed in my car in America, I understand that I am breaking the law and I’m willing to accept the consequences. Perhaps that’s a good analogy to the way many Chinese people think about population control.

In my mind, corruption is a much bigger issue … when a rich or powerful person breaks the law and doesn’t pay the consequences, simply because of position or money or guanxi, it’s a major problem. The recent family planning riots in nearby Guanxi highlight the issue … officials and police were going door to door, destroying and stealing property and forcing abortions in families with more than one child. Local people saw the intolerance and hypocrisy in their authority figures and rioted because of it. And the Chinese government once again covered the whole thing up in their state-run media.

It’s interesting to me that the provincial family planning commission is now trying to publicly shame these people. I wonder if that loss of face will have any effect … not upon their personal family choices, but upon their actions as public officials. And I wonder when the population control laws will begin to loosen …

Some ideologues in the CCP want to call that corruption or law breaking, but to me, it seems like they are working the system in order to have the family they desire.

For the record, I don’t think there should be a ‘punishment’ for having a second child - so on this one, I sympathize with those who are being called criminals because they had a second kid.