Regulations on the Work of Family Planning Among the Migrant Population

Updated: 2014-06-05

Article 10 The migrant population shall be entitled to the following family planning services, rewards and preferential treatment at the places where they are currently staying:

(1) free of charge, participate in activities of disseminating knowledge about population and family planning laws and reproductive health;

(2) free of charge, receive contraceptives in accordance with law and enjoy other basic items of family planning technical services specified by the State;

(3) for those who have late marriage and late childbirth and who undergo a surgical operation for family planning at the places where they are currently staying, take leave in accordance with the provisions of the provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, or relatively large cities where they are currently staying; and

(4) for those who practice family planning, receive support and preferential treatment in respect of production and business operations and take priority in respect of social relief in accordance with the provisions of the provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, or relatively large cities where the migrants are currently staying.

Article 11 The local people’s governments at various levels and the relevant departments of the local people’s governments at or above the county level of the places where the migrants are currently staying shall take measures to provide the family planning services, rewards and preferential treatment for the migrant population as specified in Article 10 of these Regulations.

The local people’s governments at various levels and the relevant departments of the local people’s governments at or above the county level of the places where the residence of migrants is registered shall, in accordance with law, provide the family planning services, rewards and preferential treatment for the migrant population as specified by laws, regulations and rules.

Article 12 Couples of childbearing age shall conscientiously adopt contraceptive methods for family planning and shall be subject to family planning management by the people’s governments of the places where their residence is registered and where they are currently staying.

Article 13 The institutions that provide family planning technical services at the places where the migrants are currently staying shall issue the certificates of contraception and birth control to married women of childbearing age in accordance with the provisions of the provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, or relatively large cities where they are located.

The township or town people’s governments or the sub-district offices of the places where the migrants are currently staying shall, on the basis of the certificates of contraception and birth control issued to married women of childbearing age, promptly report information about the migrants’ use of contraceptive and birth control methods to the township or town people’s governments or the sub-district offices of the places where their residence is registered. The population and family planning departments of the people’s governments at the county level, the township or town people’s governments or the sub-district offices of the places where the residence of migrants is registered shall not require the married women of childbearing age to return to the places where their residence is registered and be examined for contraception and birth control.