The revelation of Beijing's children's business in Hong Kong: Three to 4 to 150,000

Li Chen's first card photo was taken at a photo studio in Hong Kong.　　It was the third day of his arrival, and, like all newborns, the boy, who was not even clear, was wrapped in swaddling clothes, with difficult, tiny eyes, and then framed in the lens. Two months later, a commercial and residential room near the Beijing double well, the expectant mother Churi the picture on Li Chen's passport. The worker, who was in charge of receiving her, said the child's parents were too busy to come and get the papers.　　The dark blue passport covers the "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China". This is a company specializing in "Hong Kong children" business, every week, two or three pregnant women in Beijing through the company to Hong Kong, giving birth to a Hong Kong resident status of the next baby. These babies are called "Aberdeen" by people. Churi looked at the Li Chen on the photo and subconsciously stroked the belly that had not yet uplifted. On the opposite wall is a line of Scarlet slogan: "Let your baby win at the starting line of life 1" to get an appointment to prove that "" You this is the first few tires ah? "The first child." "The reception staff glanced at the Churi's figure:" How long is the pregnancy? "3 months." "Now the formalities are right, and then some days, the belly is big enough to do." "But Churi later was told that even if the figure shape has a smooth way to customs clearance," dress loose, sitting in the car clearance, is not pregnant women generally do not see out. "This next Churi some whispered:" How to listen to and sneak like. Earlier, when she searched the information on "Children in Hong Kong" online, she found that more than 10 intermediary companies in Beijing were operating such businesses.　　But in the industry and Commerce departments to inquire about the business license of these companies found that its operating a variety of projects, including commercial performances, advertising, import and export trade, and her dealings with the company, business license on the operating project is only "education consultation." "You can rest assured that we have been in business for more than two years. "In order to dispel Churi's doubts, the staff told her:" Since February 2007, it is perfectly legal to have children in Hong Kong. "This legalization stems from the outcome of the trial in a 2001-year case," he said. The decision of the Court of Final appeal of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has enabled mainland children who are neither parents nor residents to confirm Hong Kong people's identity. Hong Kong is governed by case law, which means that all Chinese citizens born in Hong Kong are entitled to the identity and welfare of Hong Kong people.　　In February 2007, the HKSAR government announced that pregnant women in the mainland must hold an appointment certificate to enter Hong Kong for delivery in 7 months. According to media reports in Hong Kong, the purpose of the SAR government is to prevent a large number of pregnant women from going to Hong Kong to give birth to their children, but the intermediary companies have interpreted them as "This means that the SAR government has already opened up to pregnant women in the mainland, so long as they can get an appointment certificate smoothly." "Four kinds of" package "average price 80,000 according to the intermediary company staff revealed that to Hong Kong to give birth to children in Beijing, there are entertainment stars, company white-collar,There are even civil servants, the reason for this is the birth of child, unmarried children, preparing for immigrants, or creating conditions for the development of the child. To have a Hong Kong account, the price is quite high.　　Staff to Churi introduced 4 kinds of package services, the price from 40,000 to 150,000 yuan different, signed the most is a 80,000-dollar package. 80,000 Yuan Package service includes 20 items, from the booking of maternity wards, accompanied by the production of inspection and hotel accommodation, to the relevant documents and procedures.　　All fees will be paid 5 times: The two sides pay 5000 yuan when signing the contract, the first time to Hong Kong to pay 58,000 yuan service charge (of which 40,000 Hong Kong dollars from the hospital), prenatal admission to the hospital to pay 13,000 yuan, the receipt of documents and then pay 3000 yuan and 1000 yuan respectively. However, 80,000 yuan is only a bottom line.　　The traffic and catering charges between the expectant mothers and the Hong Kong and Beijing are not included, and if there is a need for an extended stay, the cost of lodging will be paid at HK $500 per day; if the mother or baby needs special care after childbirth, all the related expenses must be resolved on their own. There is also a rather important detail: In case the fetus is aborted by force majeure, then this 80,000 yuan fee can only achieve a partial refund, in particular, the fees charged by the hospital, according to the local hospital in Hong Kong to determine the amount of refund. Staff to Churi frankly: "If this situation, the best result is that the hospital can refund 2 to 30,000 Hong Kong dollars, and some hospitals will not return a penny." "A 60-year life of a Beijing Aberdeen"-7 months before his birth: he received his first prenatal check-up with his mother to Hong Kong hospital and was given a birth appointment certificate.　　This is an important step in life, but it is not him who makes the decision.　　-4 weeks before birth: he and his mother live in a hotel in Shenzhen for up to 14 days to be ready for production.　　-2 weeks before birth: finally to Hong Kong hospital, where he will be born. -the 2nd day of birth: he and his mother left Hong Kong hospital.　　He could have stayed there for a few more days, but the doctor had to shorten his and his mother's hospitalization because of the tight beds. -The 3rd day of birth: take photos and apply for documents. A few days later, he had 5 documents: birth certificate, return permit, home visit permit, passport and identity card.　　All this is to show that he is a "Aberdeen". -1 weeks after birth: Take the train back from Shenzhen to Beijing.　　Beijing is his hometown, but from the day he was born, his identity is insulated from here. -Before the age of 18: Over the years, he has only been to Hong Kong 3 times in order to update the photos on the documents.　　In Beijing, he went to kindergarten, primary school, middle school and even high school, he and his classmates speak the same accent, but his identity has always been du life. -18 years old: This year, students are enrolled in the college entrance examination, but he is not eligible to participate.　　He will have to face the exam later, but it will be easier. -60 years old: he's retired. If there were no variables, he would finally be able to collect his pension in Hong Kong. Maybe it's aThe first benefit that the Hong Kong resident has really enjoyed, but I am afraid it is also the last benefit.　　Hospital beds are about October. The potential risk does not deter would-be mothers from heading south. The Shenzhen Lo Wu Port has become an important access point in the "Hong Kong children's Road map" depicted by the intermediary companies. For the first time in Hong Kong, expectant mothers will be given a first prenatal check-up at a designated hospital and a maternity appointment certificate. After 37 weeks of pregnancy arrived in Shenzhen for production, two weeks later through the Lo Wu port to enter Hong Kong for a second prenatal inspection.　　They will then be admitted to the hospital until 5 working days after the birth of the child, all relevant formalities are taken and their "Aberdeen" is returned to Beijing through the Lo Wu crossing. The size of the mainland women's corps was even more surprising to them. A mother in the online forum recalls her visit to Hong Kong, said the hospital to visit time, everywhere can see speak Mandarin, holding the Hong Kong-Macau pass of mainland relatives. In the passage of the Lo Wu Port, she heard an anecdote, a premature pregnant woman did not have time to cross the bridge, gave birth to the child, "only one step away from the" 1 as a result of the influx of mainland mothers, some hospitals in Hong Kong have a "bed crisis".　　Churi to consult the intermediary company, usually will take pregnant women to the Hong Kong Ren ' An hospital, the Hong Kong New Territories Eastern District, the private hospital has nearly 400 beds, although only just June, but the hospital even October beds are booked full. The resulting high prices of private hospitals have caused discontent among Hong Kong residents. According to a statistical data of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, only 620 pregnant women born in Hong Kong in 2001, and a breakthrough of 10,000 in 2004, are now pregnant women who give birth in Hong Kong public hospitals, and each of them has a mainland pregnant woman in three.　　Local media even used words like "The bully bed" to tease pregnant women in the mainland. "The beds have to beg, tax for what?" "Local pregnant women in Hong Kong have made such a Cantonese slogan in a protest in exchange for Putonghua, which is to say," since beds are difficult to find, why pay taxes?　　"Life insurance" is not "water month"? For many expectant mothers, having a child in Hong Kong is only a "Hong Kong advantage" as the intermediary promotes the business. The staff told Churi: "Aberdeen" can enjoy 12 years of free education benefits, they hold Hong Kong passports to more than 130 countries in the world can be visa-free, they can receive the Hong Kong pension after the age of 60, "this is equivalent to buy a life insurance."　　But all this may not be fulfilled. The 12-year free education benefits available to "Aberdeen" can only be effective in Hong Kong; If these children are educated in Beijing, they need to go through du formalities and "treat them like foreign children".　　The staff members acknowledged that some of the "Aberdeen" parents, in order to receive free education in Hong Kong, had to roamed for years to live in Shenzhen, and to send their children to and from Hongkong to school every day. The Hong Kong pension system, which is called "lifelong insurance",Does not seem as reliable as it claims. As early as a few years ago, mainland pregnant women who had children in Hong Kong had been brought to the attention of the SAR government, and there were rumours that the relevant legal provisions would be amended.　　Meanwhile, officials of the Family Planning Commission have repeatedly stressed in recent years that mainland pregnant women who have children in Hong Kong will be deprived of the mainland's domicile and welfare if they acquire the right of abode.　　An unfair life competition perhaps only in the face of the college entrance examination, "Aberdeen" can indeed win at the starting line. After the completion of high school, "Aberdeen" does not need to take part in the mainland's college entrance examination, but only to be prepared to face the "common colleges and universities to recruit overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao, Taiwan Province students." Intermediary company staff said that this test is more difficult than the college entrance examination is much easier, and many key university admission fraction is lower than the college entrance examination score 200 points. These "Aberdeen" schools will be required to pay the tuition and fees standards, and the ordinary students in the mainland in full agreement.　　In addition, if they cannot cope with such an examination, they can also attend Hong Kong fluffed and go to Hong Kong for university. Some mainland parents, however, are rather disgusted. Surveys show that the vast majority of mainland "Aberdeen" will return to life in the mainland. This means that they grow up in the real consumption of medical, education and other resources from the mainland, and even job hunting and the mainland to compete with their peers.　　"If this is called" winning at the starting line, "says a beijing-based parent, the competition is inherently unfair. In the online forum, some people said, "the disparity between the economic level and welfare benefits between the mainland and Hong Kong is narrowing and the University of Hong Kong has enrolled students from the mainland."　　The Netizen thinks, perhaps when the child grows up, the superiority of the Hong Kong resident status may have already vanished. 60 years of investigation of the matter who said clearly reporters in the interview was fortunate to see a few Beijing "Aberdeen" documents, the children's naïve expression and adult disputes have no connection.　　The children are not wrong, their parents do not seem to have done anything wrong, at least they do not appear in the process of the completion of the children in Hong Kong, it seems that there is no contravention of any law in the mainland, and the premise that the birth of children in Beijing or Hong Kong, is a purely personal choice Aside from the social public resources and moral not to talk about, this choice of the mother should not do? Did you do the right thing? When tens of thousands of pregnant women from the mainland went to Hong Kong for birth, this is no longer a matter of personal concern and has evolved into a social trend. The root cause of this abnormal flow is the disparity between the social welfare system and the standard of living between the mainland and Hong Kong.　　Mothers are looking for a better future for their children, but there is nothing to be wrong about it, but it should be reminded that there is a short-sighted risk lurking behind this choice. We acknowledge the reality gap between the two places and should also see thisThe differences are shrinking, and there is even a trend toward countercurrent. In the course of this change, who dares to predict the situation of the social environment in the two places after 60 years? Today's value to judge tomorrow's market, it is more like gambling. Especially for children, their fate is inexplicably as chips, I am afraid is the most unjust thing. Since life belongs to them, it is advisable to leave them to the decision. (Reporter Zhou Jiansen)