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CHINA - LAWYERS CALL TO CURB
PRACTICE OF LINKING HUKOU OFFICIAL BIRTH REGISTRATION TO NATIONAL FAMILY
PLANNING LAW PERMISSION
By Wei Mingyan - Editor: Sophia Zhu – April 30, 2014
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Thirty two lawyers and scholars have recently called for local
governments to curb the informal practice of linking the hukou, or household
registration system, to the family planning policy.[chinanews.cn] |
Thirty-two
lawyers and scholars have recently called for local governments to curb the
informal practice of linking the hukou, or household registration system, to
the family planning policy.
Lawyer
Wu Youshui from east
In
April, east China's Shandong Province and Nanchang City in east China's Jiangxi
Province passed a law which clearly states that newborns will be registered
with the hukou system as long as their parents present a birth certificate from
a hospital, which means, they no longer need to provide the birth permission
certificate to prove they have obeyed the family planning law in China.
According
to the Sixth National Census in 2010, there were 13 million people in
According
to lawyer Huang Yizhi from
In
1988, National Family Planning Committee issued a notice to clearly forbid
linking hukou registration with breaching the family planning law. The Ministry
of Public Security also issued the same notice in both 1998 and 2010.
Zhang
Yimou, a well-known Chinese film director, violated the country's family
planning law by having three children without permission for the births.
However, all three children were legally registered in the hukou system, Zhang
only needed to show the birth certificates and marriage certificate. According
to the local police in Zhang's hometown of