Chapter II    Formulation and Implementation of Population Development Plans

Article 9 The State Council shall make plans for population development and incorporate them into the national economic and social development plans.

Based on the plans for population development nationwide and such plans made by the people's governments at the next higher level, people's governments at or above the county level shall, in light of their local conditions, work out such plans for their own administrative regions and incorporate them into their economic and social development plans.

Article 10 People's governments at or above the county level shall, on the basis of the population development plans, formulate plans for implementation of the population and family planning programs and make arrangements for their implementation.

The administrative departments for family planning of the people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for routine implementation of the population and family planning plans.

People's governments of townships, ethnic townships, and towns, and neighborhood offices in urban areas shall be in charge of the population and family planning programs in the areas under their jurisdiction and shall implement the population and family planning plans.

Article 11 In the implementation plans for population and family planning programs shall be specified measures for keeping the size of the population under control, improving maternal and child healthcare services, and raising the general quality of the population.

Article 12 Villagers' committees and residents' committees shall, in accordance with law, make a success of the family planning programs.

Government departments, the armed forces, public organizations, enterprises and institutions shall make a success of the family planning programs in their own units.

Article 13 Departments in charge of family planning, education, science and technology, culture, public health, civil affairs, the press and publication, and radio and television broadcasting shall make arrangements to conduct public education in the importance of the population program and family planning.

The mass media are obligated to give publicity to the population program and family planning for the public good.

Schools shall, in a manner suited to the characteristics of the receivers and in a planned way, conduct among pupils education in physiology and health, puberty or sexual health.

Article 14 Family planning among migrant people shall jointly be managed by the people's governments of the place where their residence is registered and of the place where they are currently staying, but chiefly by the latter.

Article 15 The State, on the basis of the national economic and social development, gradually increases the overall amount of funding for the population and family planning programs. People's governments at all levels shall guarantee the necessary funding for the said programs.

People's governments at all levels shall give special support to the population and family planning programs in poverty-stricken areas and in areas inhabited by ethnic peoples.

The State encourages public organizations, enterprises and institutions and individuals to offer financial assistance to the population and family planning programs.

No unit or individual may withhold, reduce or misappropriate the funds earmarked for the population and family planning programs.

Article 16 The State encourages scientific research and international exchange and cooperation in respect of the population and family planning programs.