China used to fine couples for having too many babies. Now it can’t pay them enough
Asia China Parenting See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow Hong Kong — Zane Li was nine years old when he got a baby sister – and her arrival plunged the family in a small city in eastern China into crippling debt. Under China’s stringent one-child policy at the time, Li’s parents were fined 100,000 yuan (about $13,900) for having a second child – nearly three times their annual income from selling fish at the local market. “We were barely able to survive,” Li recalled.
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