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Mainland population below 1.37 bln by 2010
www.chinanews.cn 2005-09-17 16:12:35
(Source: Xinhua)
The single child certificated seen in this undated file photo. China has
implemented the family-planning policy in 1979. [baidu]
QINGDAO, Sept. 17 - China's population and family planning minister on
Friday said China will work to limit its mainland population below 1.37
billion by 2010.
Zhang Weiqing, minister in charge of the National Population and Family
Planning Commission (NPFPC), said that China has been working to build a
new mechanism featuring management according tolaw, self-governance of
villagers or residents, quality services, policy impetus and
comprehensive management as an overall approachtowards the population
issue during the past few years.
On a workshop held in Qingdao of the eastern China's Shandong province,
Zhang stressed that China will keep its family planning policy in place
to maintain a low birth level.
To some extent, China's population growth has been brought undercontrol
in the past 30 years, with a steady growth of 100 million people every
seven years, postponing China's 1.3-billion Population Day by four years
to fall on early this year. Accordingto data released by NPFPC, given
China failed to implement the family planning policy, China's population
would be nearly 400 million more than the present figure.
Zhang said China should continue to improve its population legal system
in an effort to work out laws and regulations on managing unbalanced sex
ratio at birth, reducing birth defect rate, strengthening management of
population control medicines and family planning services to eliminate
practices that hurt people'slegal rights and interests.
He also stressed that work should be done to study population policies
focusing on all-round development of humans and
implementinterest-oriented policies to award and assist families
practicingfamily planning.
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