About Population Policy

The National Family Planning Program of China 1995-2000

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VII. Strengthen and Improve Management of the Population Plan and Statistics

(24) The Provisional Regulations Governing the Management of Population Plans and the Regulations for the Implementation of Population Plans at the Grassroots Level (for trial use) should be conscientiously implemented. Local authorities should proceed from the local conditions and work out in a scientific and rational way their own population plans in accordance with the population plan set by the Central Government. Population plans should be made known to the public so as to subject them to people's supervision.

(25) The Law of the People's Republic of China on Statistics and the Rules for the Implementation of Family Planning Statistics should be implemented in real earnest. A stronger contingent of statistics workers should be formed and effective measures adopted to ensure the quality of population and family planning statistics. Attempts to withhold, underreport or distort statistical data arc strictly forbidden. The evaluation of statistical data should be strengthened and efforts made to ensure the success of the comprehensive analysis of statistical data and other relevant information. The role of statistics in providing information, counseling and supervision should be brought into full play.

(26) A national family planning management information system should be gradually established to improve family planning management and services. By the year 2000 departments in charge of family planning above the county level should have set up networks for family planning information dissemination and computer-aided management of information on women of childbearing age and family planning work should have materialized in most of the counties.