It is unclear whether placing the family planning commission under the health ministry indicates a rethink of the one-child policy.
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The Family Planning Commission, meanwhile, actively suppresses dissenting voices, its critics allege.
It was a producer of the show, he said, calling to say the interview had been canceled under pressure from the Family Planning Commission.
The group advocating for ending the one-child policy thought the change "would be a simple matter, " said Gu Baochang, a professor of demography at Renmin University in Beijing, former adviser to the Family Planning Commission and informal leader of the advocacy group.
This worries the Chinese: the theme of discrimination dominated a conference held in September by Peng Peiyun, head of the state Family Planning Commission, to ruminate on the imbalance.
The National Population and Family Planning Commission estimates the population will peak in 2033, when there will be 1.5 billion Chinese.
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An inter-government task force has been formally established, with the National Health and Family Planning Commission leading the coordination along with the Ministry of Agriculture and other key ministries.
According to China's National Health and Family Planning Commission, the men who died in Shanghai became ill with coughs and fevers before developing pneumonia.
Liu Zhi, director of the municipal commission for population and family planning, told China Daily on Saturday that the city plans to start extensive research into the characteristics of the urban population.
Further surveillance will help in understanding the virus's transmission, said Liang Wannian, director general of the health emergency division of China's National Health and Family Planning Commission.
While the source of the virus remains unknown, further surveillance will help in understanding its transmission, said Liang Wannian, director general of the health emergency division of China's National Health and Family Planning Commission.
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