BEIJING - Chinese officials said Monday that the country's one-child policy exempts families with a child killed, severely injured or disabled in the country's devastating earthquake.


Those families can obtain a certificate to have another child, the Chengdu Population and Family Planning Committee in the capital of hard-hit Sichuan province said.

With so many shattered families asking questions, the Chengdu committee is clarifying existing one-child policy guidelines, said a committee official surnamed Wang.

"There are just a lot of cases now, so we need to clarify our policies," said Wang, who declined to elaborate.

The May 12 quake was particularly painful to many Chinese because it killed so many only children.

The earthquake has left more than 65,000 people so far, with more than 23,000 missing. Officials have not been able to estimate the number of children killed.

Chinese couples who have more than one child are commonly punished by fines. The announcement says that if a child born illegally was killed in the quake, the parents will no longer have to pay fines for that child — but the previously paid fines won't be refunded.

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Hijole, "one child" policy, ouch . . That's got to be hard just being allowed one child, que no? How many millions Chinese in China?

As the world's population surpassed 6 billion (6,000,000,000) in October 1999, China's population represented more than 1/5 of this total (20.8%) -- one out of every five people in the world lives in China.

Today, China's population exceeds 1.25 billion (1,250,000,000), a number that continues to increase minute-by-minute on Beijing's official Ticking
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/china/geog/population.htm

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That's a lot of Chinos.

Fuckem,I say the United States kicks them while they're down.

Your right,they should just go ahead a nukem,level the whole god damn country.

it would be crzy. big as they are, they have ver little modern warfare experience.



Anyway, who knew the Chinese government could be so lenient, ey ..

[font=Comic Sans MS]To be told to only have one child only, pfft.

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^Overpopulation is sad,buddy.

The People's Republic of China is rising to a super power status.It will rival the u.s.,if not surpass it on various fronts from military to economic.So yeah,go on and nuke them now while they still have a chance.

That's alot of people who got killed, and alot of children who were orphaned. Overpopulation is definitely a problem, as sad as it may seem they are trying something to try to control it.