Because she was born in violation of China's one-child-per-couple policy, local officials will not give her one.
Sex-selective abortions became common in China in the 1990s as a result of the country's strict (now somewhat laxer) one-child-per-couple policy and a traditional preference for sons.
The country is gradually relaxing its one-child-per-couple policy, but too late for many older migrant workers who may often have only one child to look after them.Employer contributions will boost the pension accounts of some migrants.
He has relaxed the one-child-per-couple policy, a Deng-era legacy that has led to widespread abuses.More muscle neededIt is still far from clear whether Mr Xi's economic policies will succeed in preventing a sharp slowdown in growth.
When the woman's family published the pictures online they went viral, sparking a furious debate about the country's one-child-per-couple policy and the way its rigid mandates had incentivised local bureaucrats to take a life (see article).Autocratic regimes can oppress their citizens without performance targets, and performance targets are not necessarily a bad idea.
The ratio of workers to pensioners is expected to decline to 3 to 1 in 2050 from 10 to 1 in 1995, thanks to the urban one-child-per-couple policy that has caused the birth rate to drop.Most of the money paid into the individual pension accounts does not go into independently managed investment funds, but is used to meet existing commitments.
And unlike members of her parents' generation, she is not afraid to borrow.Members of Miss Wu's generation are the first group of only children born after the introduction of China's one-child-per-couple policy in the late 1970s to acquire big spending power.
This article chronicles how the Chinese one-child-per-couple policy (the "OCPCP"), enforced since 1980, has, when combined with a cultural preference for boys and sex-selective abortions, completely distorted the marriage market.
The emphasis was solely on a two-child per couple policy with 3 to 5 years of spacing [ 6].
A planned-birth policy was introduced in 1973 and the one-child-per-couple policy became a national law in 1980 [ 31].
