A child was taken away 32 years ago in a provincial city in southern China.
The shock is widespread as local authorities have admitted that they have publicly removed their children under the so-called one-child policy.
According to reports from Chinese government-affiliated internet media, a couple living in Quanzhou, a provincial city in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the south, said in 1990, 32 years ago, that they were the seventh child, who was one year old at the time. It means that he was taken away.
Last month, the couple asked police to investigate the case.
In response, local health officials told the couple on the 1st of this month that "under the strict population control policy at that time, children born against the policy were" socially adjusted "by the decision of the local government." It means that you notified in writing.
Illegal abortion and the buying and selling of children have become issues in China in connection with the former one-child policy, but it is unusual for local authorities to admit that they were publicly involved in the removal of children based on their policies. is.
The whereabouts of the child are unknown, and criticisms to the authorities such as "Is it a kidnapping if the general public is taken away, but is it a social adjustment if the authorities are taken away?" Are posted on SNS, and the shock is spreading.