A Chinese professor, Yang Zhizhu, was sacked because he refused to pay £20,000 fine for his second child to the government.
I read this eye-freshing piece of news from a Chinese Media. Long time of being my family's only child, I have to say something.
Before we jump into the conclusion of accusing anybody, some facts should be cleared, especially for our Western readers.
Birth Control policy was adopted fourty years ago.
It will be easier to spoil the child if he is the only child of the family, according to a social study.
Most people who live in rural places of China have more children.(see the figures in the second article)
China has the largest population in the world which causes many problems such as poverty, hunger...
Western world is against abortion but China does not forbid.
The professor is teaching law in China. It is he who voilated Chinese law.
This innocent child will face many problems. She is not given her Hu Kou issued by the Government, a special civial residence evidence to go to school or hospital. Just because her father refused to pay the fine.
Freedom of having birth becomes an issue to be tackled during China's process of being a citizen society.
The fine is to support a special department of Chinese Government named Birth Control Office.
According to Hu An gang, one of brain stormer for Chinese highest level government says, "population is not the one that leads to the pressure of resource and environment problems."
One Child policy was supposed to be welcomed not a enforcement.
Ma Yinchu advised the birth control that every couple had two children almost 50 years ago. We fail to surpass him.
Chinese people hate changes. They tend to accept changes step by step, gradually.
Chinese people are the best people in the world, according to Han Han, who is just selected as an influencial youth in the world. They never seek for unstable elements to solve their own problems, which makes it easier for their government to govern.
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BEIJING, China, April 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A prominent university professor in Beijing has been fired because he and his wife had a second child in defiance of China's infamous one-child policy, says Chinese Human Rights Defenders.
Law professor Yang Zhizhu was notified by officials from the China Youth University for Political Sciences on March 26 that he was being fired because he had violated Beijing's family planning regulations.
Yang's wife gave birth to their second child on December 21, 2009. On the same day, university officials promulgated guidelines that outlined punishments for employees who violated the city's family planning regulations, which included such sanctions as a three-year ban on promotions and a one-year suspension.
Yang has been a vocal opponent of China's population control regime, challenging the city's laws and the school's guidelines in articles and a blog.
"Prof Yang is only the latest of many Chinese government employees who have been fired for breaking the one-child policy,” commented Stephen Mosher of the U.S.-based Population Research Institute, who has done extensive on-the-ground research into China's population control policies.
"While the government now claims that the policy is enforced only by fines, the reality is that the population control police remain on the lookout for illegal children,” Mosher continued. “In the countryside village sweeps remain common, with women pregnant outside the state plan arrested and aborted.”
“In the cities both the husband and the wife can be fined, demoted, transferred, and fired for having a second child,” he added.
Because of the hefty fines levied for additional children, which amount to several years' worth of income, Mosher explained “now without employment, Prof. Zhou will still have to mortgage his family's future in order to scrape together enough money to pay this fine.”
The one-child policy, originally instituted in the 1970s, has resulted in a rapidly aging population, raising fears among some of an impending economic decline.
Realizing the demographic issues associated with the one-child policy, the city of Shanghai began encouraging married couples to have a second child last summer. Reports have indicated that their efforts are failing, however.
According to Mosher, "China's population is falling over a demographic cliff.”
“It is aging rapidly - more rapidly than any human population has ever aged - and the worker-to-retiree ratio will soon be unsustainable,” he said. “All this calls into question whether China will be able to sustain its phenomenal economic growth over the long run."
A Beijing university fires law professor for having two children
Discrimination and punishment still meted out to people who break family planning laws. A university in the capital fires professor for having a second child. The ‘One Child’ policy is undermining China’s economic growth.
Beijing (AsiaNews) – A Beijing law professor has been dismissed because his wife gave birth to a second child in violation of the country’s infamous ‘One Child’ policy, adopted in the 1970s to cut down drastically population growth. His dismissal again puts the spotlight on China’s population family planning programme, which the government ostensibly plans to review.
Chinese Human Rights Defender reported that Yang Zhizhu, an associated professor in the Faculty of Law at China Youth University for Political Sciences, was fired on 26 March because on 21 December 2009 he became a father for a second time.
On that same date, China Youth University officials issued a set of guidelines stipulating punishments for school employees who violated Beijing municipal family planning regulations.
Yang also wrote articles and began a blog to challenge the current family planning regulations as well as the school's penalties, which include a three-year ban on promotions for violators as well as a one-year suspension as a disciplinary action.
Since the late 1970s, China has enforced a ‘One Child’ policy. Couples are limited to one child (two in the countryside if the first child is female) and lawbreakers can be heavily fined and subject to discrimination at work.
In addition, abortion has been promoted as a population control method. For years, population control officials have also carried out forced abortions and sterilisation.
However, the policy is gradually undermining China’s economy. According to the Labour and Social Security Ministry, 23 per cent of the population will be over 60 by 2030, that is 351 million new pensioners to be maintained by the government. The proportion of working to non-working population will thus tip in favour of the latter. At present, three people work for every pensioner. In 20 years, that ratio will be two to one.
Labour shortages are already a problem in a country with a population of 1.3 billion people, especially in the golden belt that goes from Guangdong province to Shanghai.
The problem is so acute that Xie Lingli, director of Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission, has called on families to make more babies.
Shanghai, china’s largest city, has three million over 60, or 22 per cent of the population, a percentage that is expected to reach 34 per cent by 2020.
By 2050, the US Center for Strategic and International Studies expects China to have 438 million people over 60 and 100 million over 80.
At present, the ratio between people in working age and people over 60 is 1.6 to one. In 1975, it was 7.7 to one.
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