As the Chinese adjust to their new-found reproductive freedom, one unusual fixture of the communist society is facing an uncertain future: the millions of hated government officials who implemented China’s now-defunct one-child policy.
“It’s a problem,” says He Yafu, an independent demographer known for his criticism of the country’s population controls. “What do you do with all these people?”
Family planning bureaucrats have caused heartbreak for millions of Chinese since the policy was introduced in 1979 amid fears of a looming population glut. Their work involves enforcing abortions and sterilisations, meting out crippling fines and punishments and even removing infants from their families on behalf of the state.
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