China outlaws crude one-child slogans

CHINA’S top family planning agency has cracked down on crude and insensitive slogans used by rural authorities to enforce the country’s strict population limits, state media said yesterday.

Slogans such as “Raise fewer babies but more piggies”, and “One more baby means one more tomb”, have been forbidden and a list of 190 acceptable slogans issued by the National Population and Family Planning Commission, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Such slogans are often found painted on roadside buildings in rural areas.