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Population program "more than" fertility control

www.chinanews.cn 2005-08-08 09:21:47

( Source: Xinhuanet)

XINING, Qinghai, Aug. 7 - Chinese population program is not merely a
fertility control program as many people believe, but "much more than
that" with a number of "positive developments", a United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA) said.
"Many observers see the Chinese population program as a fertility control
program only. It is much more than that and there are a number of
positive developments since the inception of the policy in 1980," said
Ronny Lindstrom, UNFPA's deputy representative, at Aug. 6-8 Northwest
China Forum on Population and Development held in Xining, the capital of
northwest China's Qinghai Province.
Such developments include continued improvement of population health,
particularly reproductive health, improved employment, standard of
living, legal systems, including complaint systems, strong emphasis on
human-centered development, new emphasis on services to clients and
universal provision of contraceptives, he said, adding they may not only
be due to the population program, but are clearly related.
He said China has also managed to bring its huge population to a
fertility rate of below replacement.
The U.N. official cautioned, however, that China still faces several
challenges as its population will continue to grow until 2020 and its
health and education needs further improvement.
Besides, offering services for migrants remains a challenging task and
lack of social security of many people, the increasingly aging population
structure and an imbalance of sex ratio are getting attention from the
government, he acknowledged.
"Perhaps the greatest challenge, however, is that of long-term planning
and economic growth," he said.

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