China will provide free family planning services to the millions
of migration population, said Zhang Weiqing, the minister in charge
of the National Population and Family Planning Commission here on
Wednesday.
With China's social and economic development, more people choose
to leave their registered permanent residence to work or live in
other places, Zhang said at a meeting on China's population
issues.
The rapid increase of migration population brings more
difficulties to China's family planning administration, Zhang
said.
Government statistics show 60 percent of children born out of
the family planning are from migration population and China's
migration population has reached 147 million currently.
In the future, the registration of migration population in their
working and living places other than their registered permanent
residence should be strengthened, so as to better monitoring the
migration population and improve the family planning administration
of them, he said.
Zhang said family planning administration fees for migrant
workers will be covered by financial budget in their working
cities.
He also called for smoother exchange of information on migration
population between the family planning departments and other
authorities.
(Xinhua News Agency February 1, 2007)