(0810 CR M09)GENDER IMBALANCE
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(0810 CR M09)GENDER IMBALANCE
From Xinhua News Agency: (0810 CR M09)GENDER IMBALANCEDATELINE: Aug 10, 2011LENGTH: 00:01:29VOChina's gender imbalance is getting worse, as the country's gender ratio at birth is increasing.Vice Health Minister Liu Qian said at a press conference on Tuesday that China's sex ratio at birth was 118.08 males for every 100 females in 2010.It further expanded from 116.9 in 2000 and 111.3 in 1990.Liu explained that the expanding gender ratio imbalance can be attributed to multiple causes with Chinese people's traditional preference for sons top all the factors.Driven by the prejudice, illegal sex-selective abortions still exist.China has implemented family planning policies for about three decades.It restricts urban couples to having just one child, while ethnic minority families are permitted to have more children. Although the country's population was controlled, illegal sex-selective abortions continued to thrive in many parts of the country.Liu said a slew of measures have been taken to address the problem, incl Powered by www.newslook.com
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