Director of Population and Family Planning Commission: The first decline of sex ratio of our birth population

Hefei, June 3 (Xinhua) Xinglun, director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (Zhou Ting), said 3rd that the sex ratio at birth in China was 119.45 in 2009, down 1.11 from 2008, the first decline since "Eleven-Five". "Overall, the high sex ratio at birth has begun to be curbed," he said.　　"Li bin in the national comprehensive care of girls and the high sex ratio of the birth rate of the problem, said the population and family planning report data show that 2009 14 key provinces (districts) of the birth rate of the majority of the decline in the trend, and some provinces declined significantly. She noted that this achievement was the result of a combination of factors in economic and social development, and that it was inseparable from persistent efforts to carry out care for girls and to integrate a high proportion of the sex ratio at birth.　　The leadership of all levels of government has been further intensified, and a good social atmosphere for girls ' growth and women's development is forming.　　In favor of family planning, the benefit-oriented mechanism of daughter households is also gradually established, in the establishment of a perfect interest-oriented policy system to focus on family planning daughter households tilt, in the new agricultural and rural security and other work to ensure that family planning daughter affordable. The implementation of the whole pregnancy and childbirth service has achieved new results. All over the world to strengthen the whole process of pregnancy and childbirth services, the details of marriage, pregnancy, education and other stages of service content;　　In addition, the work mechanism of "two-non" (Fetal sex identification and non-medical need for artificial termination of pregnancy) is further perfected. Li bin also stressed that at present, China's birth sex ratio is still seriously deviated from the normal range, involving a wide range of areas, covering a large number of people, traditional reproductive concepts and gender preferences in a short period of time difficult to change, "two-non" behavior of more diverse methods, means more covert, more difficult , the benefit-oriented policy system for family planning daughters should be further perfected.　　Comprehensive management of the high sex ratio at birth is still a long, arduous and complicated task at present and in the coming period.　　She requested that all localities should take the 2009 birth sex ratio drop as a new starting point, strive for further decline in 2010, through several years of unremitting efforts to consolidate and maintain the overall decline of the situation, and gradually achieve a natural balance of the birth sex ratio. Since the 1980s, the sex ratio of our country's birth rate has been high, 2000 was 116.86, 2005 was 119, individual provinces even reached 130, which deviated from the normal range of 103 to 107 seriously.