Couple Must Pay Millionaire Fines for Having Octuplets in China

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A couple must pay about $ 1.6 million for having octuplets through in vitro fertilization.

A couple of Guangzhou province in southern China, faces a fine of between 5 and 10 billion yuan (0.8 to 1.6 million) for having octuplets through in vitro fertilization, various media reported today Chinese.

One of them, the newspaper Cantonese "Southern Metropolis Daily", said officials of Zhaoqing, where the couple resides, investigating the case after a photo of the eight babies will be posted online and caused much debate among citizens about of the one-child policy and how wealthy families is the jump.

The newspaper said the couple, who had trouble conceiving children invested one million yuan ($ 160,000) in a fertilization program in Hong Kong, fertilized embryos implanted in the mother as two "surrogates", with luck that all embryos were successfully fertilized.

According to the regulations of Zhaoqing, a partner who has more than one child must pay three to six times the previous year's income, so it has been calculated that the family of octuplets, apparently quite rich, millionaire facing the aforementioned fine.

The one-child policy was introduced in the late 1970s to curb overpopulation in China and, according to government statistics, has managed to stop the annual population growth from 1.35 million new people per year in 1980 to 630,000 today.

In recent years there have been calls to relax the policy, especially in more developed areas of China (including Guangdong province) where new generations are not sufficient to meet the needs of the local labor market.

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