China cleans up one-child slogans

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Source: bbc





Last Updated: Sunday, 5 August 2007, 08:24 GMT 09:24 UK

China cleans up one-child slogans
"Have less children, have a better life" - a slogan in Shuangwang, southern China

A list of 190 acceptable slogans is being issued instead.

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It gave examples of "low quality" slogans posted on rural banners or the internet: "Raise fewer babies but more piggies", "Houses toppled, cows confiscated, if abortion demand rejected" and "One more baby means one more tomb."

Among the new slogans recommended are "The mother earth is too tired to sustain more children" and "Both boys and girls are parents' hearts."

China's 28-year-old family planning policy limits most urban couples to just one child and allows some families in the countryside to have a second child if their first is a girl.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6931819.stm

[Kutjara]

1. "One more baby means one more tomb."

Nice. I'm guessing they didn't have Saatchi or Ogilvy working on this account.

[GliderGuider]

3. There's such a thing as too much truth in advertising...

[David__77]

2. I like the slogan about equally valuing boy and girl children.

Unfortunately, be privatizing agriculture, China's rulers were again created the scenario in which small farmers are compelled to hope for boy children as a source of labor.

As far as the "one child" policies are concerned, there's been a lot of abuse, I'm sure, but I don't think there is a "limit" so much as a lack of economic benefits for additional children- no free education and so forth, as well as tax penalties.

[LostinVA]

4. How about: "No children means uninterrupted sex"

[NJCher]

5. ehhh

If they're so worried about additional kids, why don't they tell parents to let their kids play with Mattel (made-in-China) toys?

Or hey, how about brushing their teeth with some of that great toothpaste they sent Panama?



Cher