China One-child Policy
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A Mother's Search 30 Years After Son Was Kidnapped During 1-Child Policy
During the one-child era, the trafficking of young boys was fuelled by parents seeking a son to carry on the family line, experts say. Unwanted girls were often abandoned or sold into sex work, forced marriage or labour.
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Why Is China Taxing Condoms, Birth Control Pills Now? Policy Shift Explained
China has begun imposing a 13 percentsales tax on contraceptives such as condoms, birth control pills, and devices from January 1, 2026, while exempting childcare services from value-added tax (VAT).
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China Stops Foreign Adoptions Of Its Children After 3 Decades
China will no longer send children overseas for adoption, the government said, overturning a more than three-decade rule that was rooted in its once strict one-child policy.
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Born Again: Baby Boom After China Ends One-Child Rule
As soon as China abandoned its one-child policy a year ago, Zheng Xiaoyu and her husband started trying for a sibling for their nine-year-old son.
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Chinese Parents Go To Court Seeking To Register 2nd Children
Wan Changru's 6-year-old daughter collects passes - for her dance school, English lessons and other extra-curricular classes, anything bearing her name that she can pretend is an identity card.
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China Tells Eager Parents to Hold Off on the Baby-Making for Now
China ordered local family planning agencies to keep enforcing the country's one-child policy, undercutting one province's plans to start letting parents expand their families now, state media said.
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China Says One-Child Policy Stays in Effect for Now
China must continue to enforce its one-child policy until new rules allowing all couples to have two children go into effect, the top family planning body said.
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Family in China Fined $110,180 for Violating One-Child Policy
A family in China with seven children has been fined $110,180 for violating the country's controversial one-child policy, resurfacing concerns over the stringent family planning policy that was relaxed recently.
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Top China filmmaker pays $1.2 million fine for violating one-child policy
China's best-known film director Zhang Yimou has paid 7.5 million yuan ($1.2 million) for violating the one-child policy, officials said on Friday, closing a case that had attracted widespread attention.
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China mother left homeless by 17-year hunt for kidnapped son
The 17-year hunt for her kidnapped son cost Ye Jinxiu her marriage, home and family. And when she found her boy, now a grown man and stranger, he wanted nothing to do with her.
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Chinese director blames tradition for breaking one-child rule
China's top film director Zhang Yimou has said he violated the country's one-child policy because of the traditional belief that having multiple children would lead to greater prosperity, state media said.
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Soups, statues and soothsayers in demand as China eases one-child law
In a dimly-lit arcade in downtown Shanghai, shopkeeper Xia Zihan holds out a glinting, yellow-glass carving of the fertility goddess Guanyin, a range she says is starting to sell well after China relaxed its single-child policy last month.
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China says on path to eventually scrap one-child policy
China will eventually scrap family planning restrictions, a senior official said on Tuesday, days after the government announced it will allow millions of families to have two children.
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Easing of China policy may not result in baby boom
Don't expect a new Chinese baby boom, experts say, despite the first easing of the country's controversial one-child policy in three decades.
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How China's family-planning policy came about
China's Communist Party said the country's one-child policy would be eased in the first significant adjustment in nearly three decades. Key events in the history of China's family planning policy:
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A Mother's Search 30 Years After Son Was Kidnapped During 1-Child Policy
During the one-child era, the trafficking of young boys was fuelled by parents seeking a son to carry on the family line, experts say. Unwanted girls were often abandoned or sold into sex work, forced marriage or labour.
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Why Is China Taxing Condoms, Birth Control Pills Now? Policy Shift Explained
China has begun imposing a 13 percentsales tax on contraceptives such as condoms, birth control pills, and devices from January 1, 2026, while exempting childcare services from value-added tax (VAT).
-
China Stops Foreign Adoptions Of Its Children After 3 Decades
China will no longer send children overseas for adoption, the government said, overturning a more than three-decade rule that was rooted in its once strict one-child policy.
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Born Again: Baby Boom After China Ends One-Child Rule
As soon as China abandoned its one-child policy a year ago, Zheng Xiaoyu and her husband started trying for a sibling for their nine-year-old son.
-
Chinese Parents Go To Court Seeking To Register 2nd Children
Wan Changru's 6-year-old daughter collects passes - for her dance school, English lessons and other extra-curricular classes, anything bearing her name that she can pretend is an identity card.
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China Tells Eager Parents to Hold Off on the Baby-Making for Now
China ordered local family planning agencies to keep enforcing the country's one-child policy, undercutting one province's plans to start letting parents expand their families now, state media said.
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China Says One-Child Policy Stays in Effect for Now
China must continue to enforce its one-child policy until new rules allowing all couples to have two children go into effect, the top family planning body said.
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Family in China Fined $110,180 for Violating One-Child Policy
A family in China with seven children has been fined $110,180 for violating the country's controversial one-child policy, resurfacing concerns over the stringent family planning policy that was relaxed recently.
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Top China filmmaker pays $1.2 million fine for violating one-child policy
China's best-known film director Zhang Yimou has paid 7.5 million yuan ($1.2 million) for violating the one-child policy, officials said on Friday, closing a case that had attracted widespread attention.
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China mother left homeless by 17-year hunt for kidnapped son
The 17-year hunt for her kidnapped son cost Ye Jinxiu her marriage, home and family. And when she found her boy, now a grown man and stranger, he wanted nothing to do with her.
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Chinese director blames tradition for breaking one-child rule
China's top film director Zhang Yimou has said he violated the country's one-child policy because of the traditional belief that having multiple children would lead to greater prosperity, state media said.
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Soups, statues and soothsayers in demand as China eases one-child law
In a dimly-lit arcade in downtown Shanghai, shopkeeper Xia Zihan holds out a glinting, yellow-glass carving of the fertility goddess Guanyin, a range she says is starting to sell well after China relaxed its single-child policy last month.
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China says on path to eventually scrap one-child policy
China will eventually scrap family planning restrictions, a senior official said on Tuesday, days after the government announced it will allow millions of families to have two children.
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Easing of China policy may not result in baby boom
Don't expect a new Chinese baby boom, experts say, despite the first easing of the country's controversial one-child policy in three decades.
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How China's family-planning policy came about
China's Communist Party said the country's one-child policy would be eased in the first significant adjustment in nearly three decades. Key events in the history of China's family planning policy:
