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Family Planning to Feed on Governmental Appropriation

China will finance its family planning sector with governmental appropriation to keep the machine working effectively, a Chinese official said Sunday.

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China will finance its family planning sector with governmental appropriation to keep the machine working effectively, a Chinese official said Sunday.

Zhang Weiqing, Minister in charge of the State Family Planning Commission, said the Population and Family Planning Law, which comes into effect Sunday, has laid a legal foundation for the country's family planning work to get financial appropriation fromgovernments at all levels.

Family planning is a national policy of China, which calls for each couple to have no more than one child. However, the family planning work in some regions used to live off the fines from families which violated the birth control regulation. Usually the expense of the family planning sector had to rely on what local family planning officials could collect.

"This practice would inevitably lead to the abuse of power and even corruption," said Zhang, adding that the new-born law will help stop arbitrary charging and fining on out-of-policy birth by some local officials in charge of birth control.

The law separates the interest of family planning sectors from the fee they collect from law-breaching families, regulating all the fee should be turned in to the treasury and governments at alllevels should finance local work of family planning.

Zhang said the reform of the financing system of family planning sector is an irresistible trend. "The reform not only helps build the image of the family planning sector, but defenses people's legal interest and frees farmers of unnecessary burdens."

The system of family planning sector being operated by governmental finance is beneficial to the country's cause of family planning, Zhang said.

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