Tuesday January 14, 2003

CHINA VOWS NOT TO RELAX ONE-CHILD POLICY

BEIJING, January 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Despite various media outlets that spoke of a relaxation in China's brutally enforced one-child population control policy, greater China's business newspaper - The Standard - reports that "there will be no relaxing of the 22-year-old one-child policy." The Minister of the State Family Planning Commission announced Friday that the government hopes to keep the country's population below 1.33 billion for the next two years.

The government aims to keep the population below 1.6 billion by 2050 with zero population growth. The paper reports that the population is currently 1.28 billion.

See The Standard at:
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/thestandard/news_detail_frame.cfm?articleid=36500&intcatid=2

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