Wages and salaries are rising quickly in China, while the number of working-age adults will start flattening and then decline over the next two decades, the result of stringent family-planning policies.

Peasants Often Intimidated From visits to rural villages in many areas of China, a picture emerges of a family-planning policy that sometimes seems capricious.

The correct conclusion from the current data is that we must maintain and expand effective domestic and international family-planning policies to insure that future generations share in their proven benefits.

This is a reference to the family-planning policies instituted by the Popular Democratic Party in 1980.

The children embody a family-planning policy combined with a cultural preference: to control its burgeoning population, Beijing, with a few exceptions, wants each family to have only one child.

Nearly all developing countries have adopted progressive family-planning policies, without political risk.

More recently China's family-planning policy, which limits most urban parents to a single child, prompted many to treat their offspring like prodigies.

The children who result from these liaisons also make Beijing's family-planning policies less effective, prompting some legal experts to call for marriage laws that mandate cohabitation with one's spouse.

He is unsure why his parents were able to have more than one child, though China's enforcement of its family-planning policy has been more vigilantly enforced in some areas than in others.

Until now, United States immigration authorities have rejected claims that China's family-planning policy of itself justifies political asylum.