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According to the draft, civil servants will be reduced to a lower rank or removed from their posts if they violate local family planning regulations, which only allow couples to have a second child under specific conditions - including a disability in the first child - the Xi'an Evening News reported Thursday.
It said that those who refuse to pay "social maintenance fees" - fines paid by violators of family planning policy - or faked their records to get approval for having more than one child will be removed from their posts.
In particular, civil servants with one child or those eligible to have two children could be fired if they give birth to two or more children.
"This is a draft amendment, and we will continue revising it up until the final version is unveiled in November Barry Bonds Jersey ," a local official surnamed Han told the Global Times.
According to the Law on Population and Family Planning that took effect in 2002, Chinese civil servants can be fined and also face administrative sanctions, or even dismissal, for breaching the family planning policy. The law allows provincial regions to set their own conditions for a second child.
"It is inappropriate to fire civil servants for violation of family planning policy. It is also unfair to civil servants," argued Li Jianmin Bill Mazeroski Jersey , a professor at the Population Development Research Institute of Nankai University.
Li suggested the regulation be adjusted along with changes in China's population, especially after the central government began to loosen family planning policy last year to allow couples to have two children if one of them is an only child.
Shaanxi began implementing the new policy on March 1, 2014.
"Some said that the new policy seems to be more relaxed than before. However, judging from the local government's other policies, which encouraged single child Jung-ho Kang Jersey , it failed to realize how serious the population problems they face now are," Huang Wenzheng, a former Harvard University research fellow, told the Global Times.
Couples who have only one child will be given subsidies of at least 30 yuan ($4.8) per month, with the amount raised as general incomes rise Starling Marte Jersey , the draft reads.
Shaanxi offered rewards of at least 4,000 yuan to couples who meet the requirements for having two children, but who voluntarily forego a second child, local media reported in July 2014.
Newspaper headline: Shaanxi could fire family planning violators
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