{"id":1256,"date":"2015-12-01T16:57:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2015-12-01T17:03:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T17:03:52","slug":"china-when-an-only-child-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"China: when an only child dies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zheng Qing was devastated when she heard the news last month that China will scrap the one-child policy. It was too late to have a second child. She thought it was a great honour to follow the one child policy at that time but now feels the rule has let her down badly.<\/span><\/p>\n

She and her husband are among more than a million grieving Chinese parents who have lost the only child that the government allowed them to have.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Zheng\u2019s husband, Fan Guohi, 56, has petitioned the government to give „shidu“ parents, those who have lost their only child, both moral and financial support. Their son died from a car accident in 2012. His loss left the couple „emotionally ruined“, Zheng said.<\/span><\/p>\n

„One-child families are walking a tightrope,“ Fan said. „Once you lose your child, you lose all hope.“<\/span><\/p>\n

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Read the whole article and see more pictures on Wider Image Reuters<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/widerimage.reuters.com\/story\/china-when-an-only-child-dies<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

„Kim Kyung-Hoon<\/strong><\/a> studied photojournalism at a university in South Korea before beginning his career at a local newspaper. In 2002 he joined Reuters‘ bureau in Seoul as a staff photographer and is currently based in Beijing after working for six years in the Tokyo bureau. He has covered a range of stories from the daily spot news, political news and disaster stories to sports events.“<\/span><\/p>\n

Wider Image<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0In-depth visual reports from across the world by\u00a0Reuters, the world’s largest news agency. Updated daily with new stories.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zheng Qing was devastated when she heard the news last month that China will scrap the one-child policy. It was too late to have a second child. She thought it was a great honour to follow the one child policy at that time but now feels the rule has let her down badly. She and … Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}