About Population Policy

The National Family Planning Program of China 1995-2000

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III. Stabilize Current Family Planning Polices in Effect and Improve the Legal System

(6) Continued efforts should be made to implement the current family planning policies in effect in an all-encompassing way to prevent early marriages, early births, and reduce unwanted pregnancies and births.

Family planning should also be promoted in areas inhabited by ethnic minorities so as to promote the economic and social development in those areas and improve the quality of life of the minority people there.

(7) Continued efforts should be made to improve local legislation on family planning and work out relevant statutes and regulations. Initial preparatory work for the drafting of the Family Planning Law of the People's Republic of China should be carried out in real earnest and recommendations be made on legislation regarding population and family planning to provide a legal guarantee for the promotion of family planning. Serious efforts should be made to improve publicity and education regarding the legal system so that officials and the masses will be able to exercise their rights and perform their duties in family planning as stipulated in the Constitution and in the relevant laws and regulations. Family planning personnel at various levels should be urged to serve the people wholeheartedly. Efforts should be made to improve the enforcement of family planning regulations and strengthen its supervision. Family planning personnel are required to perform their duties in accordance with the law and ensure that laws are enforced in a just and civilized way and that the legitimate rights and interests of the people are protected. Any infringement of these laws and disciplines will be dealt with seriously and any criminal activities undermining family planning severely cracked down on.

(8) Research on population science should be strengthened. The China Population Association should act as a medium for bring together all population scientists to conduct scientific research on population and family planning and offer advice and suggestions for implementing the basic national policy of family planning and finding solutions to China's population problems.