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The National Family Planning Program of China 1995-2000

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VIII. Increase Investment and Ensure Material Support

(27) Financial departments at various levels should ensure the necessary funds for family planning endeavors. By the end of the Eighth Five-Year Plan period (1990-1995) local governments at various levels should raise the annual funds for family planning to 2 yuan per capita. During the Ninth Five-Year Plan period (1995-2000) local governments should continue to increase their input into family planning. A proportion of township public welfare funds should be earmarked for family planning. Efforts should be made to enlist financial assistance from the United Nations and other international organizations.

(28) Family planning funds should be well-managed and properly used. More financial assistance should be given to family planning in former revolutionary base areas, minority-inhabited areas, border and impoverished areas. The Rules for the Management of Social Welfare Fees should be conscientiously implemented to ensure that these fees are reasonably charged, well managed and properly used and ensure that they are used entirely for family planning endeavors.

(29) Family planning service networks should be set up at a greater speed. Planning departments at all levels should incorporate family planning capital construction into the national plan for capital construction. By the end of the Eighth Five-Year Plan period family planning service stations should be set up in most of the counties and suburban areas of cities throughout the country and efforts should be made to consolidate and improve them to bring them closer to perfection during the Ninth Five-Year Plan period. Family planning service stations or rooms at the township and village levels should be set up in line with the local conditions. As for the existing family planning service institutions, efforts should be made to improve the quality of their staff and their services, and to work out relevant rules and regulations so as to offer comprehensive services in family planning.

(30) Efforts should be made to improve the contraceptives supply networks to ensure supplies. Proper arrangements should be made in the production of contraceptives and reforms in the management of contraceptives vigorously pursued. While laying emphasis on establishing supply networks in rural areas, especially in remote and poverty-stricken areas to ensure supplies free of charge, we should expand retail sales of contraceptives in cities and economically more developed areas to meet the needs of people of childbearing age.