The Hainan
Provincial Communist Party of China (CPC) Commission for Discipline
Inspection?issued regulations on September 15, saying
Party members will be expelled if they are found to have
illegitimate children or be involved in extramarital affairs,
according to Xinhua News Agency today.
The commission's regulations, reportedly designed to enforce
family planning policy, stipulate that Party members who have
illegitimate children through adultery, bigamy or illegal
cohabitation will be thrown out.
Those who abandon children or send them away for other people to
look after and who then have more children will also be ousted.
Some 130 boys are born for every 100 girls in Hainan, much
higher than the average of between 103 and 107 boys to 100 girls.
The gender imbalance is blamed on sex-selective abortions and a
traditional preference for boys.
Party members are prohibited from ultrasound gender
identification and sex-selective abortions, as well as abuse or
abandonment of women who give birth to girls.
The regulations also say those who retaliate against those who
report their violations will be dealt with according to Party
discipline.
Heads of state-owned institutions and organizations will be
given a warning or be discharged from Party posts for failing to
implement family planning rewards or preferential policies.
(Xinhua News Agency October 10, 2005)