中国否认废“一胎政策”报道

Enoch

[BBC 中文报道 3月3日]

中国否认废“一胎政策”报道

http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/si ... 7273500/7273512.stm

中国否认废“一胎政策”报道


“一孩政策”引发不少社会问题
中国国家人口与计划生育委员会驳斥外国媒体报道称，可能废除“一胎政策”的说法不属实，并称将发表进一步声明。

路透社和英国《卫报》上周引述中国计生委副主任赵白鸽说，中国将渐进式地改变独生子女政策，并正进行“认真而负责任的研究”。

赵白鸽说：“我不能说什么时候或者是具体怎么样做，但是这个问题在决策者那里已经是一个很重要的课题。”

赵白鸽表示，当局将研究中国人口与资源的紧张关系、社会主流观点，还有如果大多数家庭放弃传统的“养儿防老”思想，中国的社保系统能否承受等课题。

但香港和广州媒体引述国家计生委宣教司官员说，这个报道“不准确，内容不属实”。

宣教司的官员还说，中国既有的人口和计划生育政策会更好地推行。

亲北京的香港《文汇报》更引述新出台的法规说，中国已经开始对农村女儿户和年满60周岁的计划生育家庭夫妇，每人每年给与不低于600元人民币的补助。

同时，当局也将严格限制超生，并严禁胎儿性别鉴定。


谈中国计划生育政策的改革  

是存是废？

北京当局称，目前的计划生育政策减少了4亿名婴儿的出生。

但是，此前专家警告说，中国人口老化日趋严重，加上传统重男轻女的思想导致性别比例失衡，已经成为社会的一颗定时炸弹。

目前，中国平均每位女性一生生育1.8个孩子，远低于1970年代的5.8个。

中国坚称计划生育政策促进了社会繁荣，但是政策的执行上一直存在不少问题，尤其是地方计生官员野蛮执法等问题，曾引发不少官民冲突事件。

不过，中国政府此前也曾表示了对于太多人无视计划生育政策的担忧。官员们警告称，在农民工流动性增加下，人口控制政策变得更难执行。

中国也曾誓言对违反计生政策的富裕家庭采取更重的处罚，阻止上流阶层通过交罚金超生的行为。

但所谓“上有政策，下有对策”，一些较为有经济能力的家庭就选择出境生产，例如到香港分娩。

伦敦大学学院研究中国“一孩政策”专家赫斯基恩博士推测，中国可能改推行“二孩政策”。

但是赫斯基恩也指出，一些中国官员明确说明对取消独生子女政策感到恐惧。他们认为绝不可能纯粹放弃政策，让人民自由生育。

lemonbunny

孩子多不好带。。现在很多人是宁可不要孩子

Enoch

[美联社 英文报道 3月3日]


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China Mulls Change to One-Child Policy

BEIJING (AP) — China may consider changing its one-child policy because it has helped slow population growth over the last three decades, a Chinese official said Sunday.

The policy, launched in the 1970s, has produced "very good results," said Wu Jianmin spokesman for the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body to parliament.

There would be an estimated 400 million more people in China without it, Wu said.

"The one-child policy was the only choice we had given the conditions when we initiated the policy," Wu told reporters at a news conference the day before the CPPCC convened for its annual session. However, he added, "when designing a policy we need to take into consideration the reality."

"So as things develop, there might be some changes to the policy and relevant departments are considering this," Wu said without giving a timeline or details on which departments would be involved.

Wu's comments echo a position China's communist government has been thinking about for some time. On Thursday, a senior family planning official said changes were being considered but that family planning policies would not be scrapped altogether.

Under the current mandate, Beijing limits most urban couples to one child and rural couples to two to conserve scarce resources. Critics say the policy has led to forced abortions, sterilizations and a dangerously imbalanced sex ratio due to a traditional preference for male heirs that has prompted countless families to abort female fetuses.

There are also concerns about China's aging population, with those aged 60 or older expected to top 200 million by 2015 and 280 million by 2025, according to the government.

The CPPCC includes representatives of China's main business, religious and other noncommunist groups. The session will run through March 14.

Wu said the hot topics this session include macroeconomic controls, government restructuring, employment rates, consumer price stability, climate change, and reform of the financial, educational and health care systems.