China Replaces Slogans In Rural Areas That Promote Country's One-Child Policy With 190 Acceptable Messages

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Article Date: 16 Oct 2007 - 9:00 PDT

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China recently replaced more than 76% of "coarsely worded" slogans that promote China's one-child-per-family policy with 190 messages issued by the country's National Population and Family Planning Commission, Xinhua/China Daily reports (Xinhua/China Daily, 10/12).

According to Xinhua News Agency, slogans on posters and walls that advocate forced abortions and threaten harsh punishment have damaged the image of the one-child-per-family policy, which seeks to keep the country's population, now 1.3 billion, at about 1.7 billion by 2050. Methods of enforcing the policy, such as fines and work demotions, vary among Chinese provinces and cities. NPFPC has come up with 190 acceptable slogans, such as "The mother earth is too tired to sustain more children," which will replace others that the commission judged offensive (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 8/7).

Other new slogans include statements with wording that focuses on expressions such as "healthy childbearing" and "reproductive health." According to a survey of residents in Beijing, Henan, Guangdong, Gansu and Sichuan, more than 25% of respondents said they had seen the new slogans more than three times in the last month. Forty-three percent of the respondents said they believed the posters were a more favorable way of acknowledging the one-child policy, the survey found. The survey was conducted by Tsinghua University's Center for International Communications Studies, Xinhua/China Daily reports (Xinhua/China Daily, 10/12).

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