Information on the passage of a new policy at the end of 1990 which requires job applicants to produce a certificate indicating that they have only one child is currently unavailable to the IRBDC. However, the following information may be noteworthy. A Toronto Star article reports the continuation of the implementation of the one-child policy in China in January 1991 (11 Jan. 1991, 1-5). Reporting the possible punishments for violating the one-child policy, the article states that "[u]rban workers, employed in state-run factories, can lose their jobs or be fined up to 15 percent of the couple's combined salaries for the next 14 years. Doctors and neighbourhood committees also often refuse to provide parents expecting an authorized child with the certificate they need to receive free medical care in a hospital" (Ibid., 4). Elaborating on the one-child policy, The Los Angeles Times refers to the Henan Province's issuance of "regulations governing family planning polices starting at the village level" in July 1990 (27 Jan. 1991, 2). Accordingly, family planning will become one of the criteria used to measure performance of all work units, down to the village level.... China's ubiquitous Communist party-controlled work units regulate the assignment of housing, employment and schooling and are responsible for monitoring the actions of each member. Party and government officials had tended to overlook a work unit's poor family planning record if, for example, it showed good results in boosting output,.... But now, a unit's family planning record will be the critical determining factor in measuring performance (Ibid., 2).
The source also refers to the "tightened regulations" according to which:
those who leave their homes must first have family planning certificates listing the number of their children and what type of birth control they use. Once they arrive in a new place, they must present the certificates to the local neighbourhood committee and to their employer, who is then responsible for supervising family planning (Ibid., 3).
Bibliography

The Toronto Star. 11 January 1991. " 'Fewer Children - Fewer Burdens' Severe Birth-control Measures Air to Curb Demands of Swelling Population, Still Another 64,000 Babies Are Born Daily." (NEXIS)

The Los Angeles Times. 27 January 1991. "China's Population Police Deal with Failures of Family Planning." (NEXIS)
Attachments
The Toronto Star. 11 January 1991. " 'Fewer Children - Fewer Burdens' Severe Birth-control Measures Air to Curb Demands of Swelling Population, Still Another 64,000 Babies Are Born Daily," pp. 1-5. (NEXIS)
The Los Angeles Times. 27 January 1991. "China's Population Police Deal with Failures of Family Planning," pp. 1-3. (NEXIS)