Fifteen Scholars Submit Proposal to NPC Recommending Comprehensive Revision of “Population and Family Planning Law”

• Author: Li Tiezhu

Initiated by Peking University Law School Professor Zhan Zhongyue and four others, with the signatures of ten additional scholars, a proposal to the National People’s Congress recommends a comprehensive revision of “Population and Family Planning Law,” including the elimination of limitations on citizens’ rights to bear children, and abolishment of reproductive approval system and the social maintenance fee system.

The proposal expresses that using the law to stress population numbers and making this the foundation of a reproductive approval system; enforcing...