CHINA: Family planning body warns of population rebound

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Updated May 16, 2007 19:36:27

China's top family-planning body has warned the nation could face a population rebound, as rich couples flout the one-child policy. The National Population and Family Planning Commission says rich are ignoring population-control laws. China's family-planning policy was implemented in the 1970s, limiting urban couples to one child and those living in the countryside to two.

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