Chinese President: one-child policy stays | LifeSiteNews.com: China’s National Bureau of Statistics released the results of the country’s first census in a decade, revealing that its population growth was cut to almost half the pace of the previous decade. Some experts are saying the figures could increase pressure on the government to relax its tight thirty-year-old population control policies, which in many cases have been enforced through forced abortion and sterilization, imprisonment, and fines many times greater than a family’s annual income.
But in advance of the data’s release, President Hu Jintao said the country would “uphold and perfect reproductive policies [to] earnestly stabilize a low birth rate,” according to Xinhua news agency. According to the government’s statistics head, Ma Jiantang, the census results actually vindicate the government’s draconian policies.
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