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China should strive to balance the structure of its population and
further improve birth quality while proceeding to pursue a still
better birth control policy, so as to help seek a solution to the
issue concerning its population, said a member of the country's
advisory body on Monday.
Chen Zongxing, a noted member of 10th National Committee of the
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), made
these remarks at the third plenary meeting of the CPPCC National
Committee Monday afternoon.
"We should be more aware of the complexity of population-related
issues and appropriately handle the relationships between the
control of China's total population, improvement of the population
quality and the substantial effort to epitomize the structure of
the country's population," said Chen, speaking on behalf of the
Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party (CPWDP).
Chen appealed to the governments at various levels to step up the
comprehensive management and contain a rising trend in the ratio of
baby boys to girls on the agenda and institute an incentive system
to achieve this goal.
He
proposed initiating a national health project for the still better
protection of the health of baby girls and publicity of the need
for balance population mix, as boys are still more preferable
rather than girls especially in the country's vast rural areas.
Chen also called for attention to be paid to birth quality and the
need of start a project to cure deformed baby girls or girls born
with slight defects.
Meanwhile, he said, ageing issue should also be taken as a major
issue to be orbited into the process of legalization, he said.
"Laws and regulations should be instituted to guide the workin this
field."
(Xinhua News Agency March 10, 2003)
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