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[BEIJING, 30 August 2010] - The Beijing government has warned parents who flout the one-child policy that the second child will not be granted citizenship if they are not registered by November 1. Families who register extra births will face minimal fines but those who attempt to hide the births of "illegal" newborns will have to raise those children without the benefit of citizenship, Xi Kaili, a spokesperson for Beijing Municipal Commission was quoted in China Daily as saying today. The penalties will be lower than some of the fines previously levied, which were often eight or nine times the average annual income, Xi said. According to Beijing Statistics Bureau, the average annual wage in the capital last year was 30,000 yuan (USD 4,409). The minimum penalty for violating the policy is 90,000 yuan (USD 13,227). Last year, around 100,000 babies were born in Beijing. Officials have said the real number may be much higher because some parents who have more than one child have not reported the births to avoid penalties. Those unregistered children then will typically not have citizenship, the newspaper said. Beijing is understood to be encouraging the registration of unregistered children as part of the nationwide census that is held every 10 years and is being carried out this year. Hou Donghai, a Beijing resident from the suburban Yanqing county, who was the second child in her family in 1986, said fewer people seemed to break the rules nowadays. Her family was fined 500 yuan (USD 73) back in 1986 for violating the policy... China has been implementing the one-child policy strictly except in Shanghai where the rule was relaxed and second children are allowed. The policy does not apply to minority groups in the country. Further information
pdf: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/China-threatens-to-deny-c...Association: Times of India