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PubMed1988

Circular on illiteracy, 1988.

In 1988, the Chinese State Council issued a Circular calling for a nationwide campaign to do away with illiteracy within five years. The goal of the campaign is to ensure that over 85% of the population in rural areas and over 90% of the population in enterprises, institutions, and cities between the ages of 15 and 40 is literate. The campaign calls for governments at all levels to take measures against illiteracy and requires peasants to learn at least 1500 characters and industrial workers and urban residents to learn 2000 characters. Certificates are to be issued to persons who meet the standards.

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PubMed1988

Family planning measures, February 1988.

In early 1988, family planning (FP) measures were announced by Mr. Liang Jimin, spokesman for the Chinese State FP Commission. The major points of the measures include: 1) stressing the leading role of the recent reform in general, 2) stabilizing FP policies, and 3) strengthening the organizational frameworks at the grassroots level and improving program performance in backward regions. The policies were explained in detail as follows: "1) to introduce a 'FP contract responsibility system' throughout the country, in order to guarantee the fulfillment of government targets of population plans, such as contracts between governments at different levels, contracts between local government and FP departments; 2) to include the performance of local FP programs as one of the criteria for evaluating the achievements of government officials at various levels, such as relevant provisions in officials' term contracts; 3) to sign FP contracts between couples at reproductive ages and local governments, such as local governments responsible for allocating birth quotas, providing contraceptive equipment and services, and paying incentives and subsidies; the couples would be responsible for using contraceptives and planning births; 4) to improve social security schemes with respect to FP, such as old-age pensions for couples with one child who have undertaken sterilization, only-child life insurance, and contraceptive operation insurance; 5) to increase the proportion of only children among all births and strictly control the quota of authorized second-births in rural areas; 6) to improve education and FP services by relying on community FP associations or "Key Households of FP", to help increase the use rate and reduce the failure rate of contraceptives, increase the quality of contraceptive operations, and reduce the incidence of induced abortion; 7) to adopt measures to eliminate early marriage and early reproduction and introduce population education in middle schools; 8) to enact new laws and regulations, such as 'regulations concerning FP administration at the grassroots level units' and 'regulations concerning FP administration of the highly mobile population'; 9) to increase international exchange and cooperation and import advanced technology and equipment for contraception."

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