China - where Party and kids don't go together
Published: 07 January, 2008, 18:19
Five hundred people have been ejected from China’s Communist Party for having more than one child. Officials say about 90,000 in Hubei province violated the one-child only policy in 2007.
According to reports, 395 offenders were dismissed from their posts, and seven national and local lawmakers lost their political rank.
The strict family-planning laws were adopted in the 1970s to control population growth and conserve natural resources of the most heavily populated country in the world.
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