Chinese film director fined over too many children

Film director Zhang Yimou must pay more than US $1.2m in fines for the three children he had in violation of China’s strict family planning rules.

Chinese film director fined over too many children

Film director Zhang Yimou must pay more than US $1.2m in fines for the three children he had in violation of China’s strict family planning rules.

A district government in the eastern city of Wuxi said that investigators concluded that the director of The Flowers Of War and his wife, Chen Ting, flouted family planning policies by having the children without approval and before they were married.

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