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The One Child Policy was set up to fight rampant population growth in China by encouraging couples to have smaller families. Under the policy, Chinese couples are permitted to have only one child. However, there are many exceptions to the rule: Chinese military officers of a certain rank are permitted to have multiple children; members of China's many ethnic minorities are free to have multiple children; and farmers in China's poorer regions are permitted to keep having children until they have a boy who can help tend to the family's farm.

Punishment for those who run afoul of the policy also varies: some find it hard to get their birth certificate registered and therefore find it hard to apply for government services; some have trouble being accepted into state owned universities; and still some find it difficult to land government jobs. In many regions of the country couples can opt to pay a fee for each additional child they have.

China has recently begun to relax the One Child Policy in its wealthy coastal cities. Strangely enough, in these affluent areas couples voluntarily choose to have one child for economic reasons.

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