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Yashin-Jao. Today I'm taking you back to China in the 1980s when the

Communist Party had just introduced this one-child policy

of being speaking to someone who had first-hand experience of the policy,

as a birth control official and as a father.

Jo Guanghong-Hung was an accountant in a rural middle school in China's Hunan province in 1982. He and his wife already had one

child, a girl when his wife got pregnant for a second time.

We knew the policy that one couple could only have one child,

but in 1982 the rules changed in our region.

If my wife didn't have a job and our first baby was a girl, we were allowed to have a second child.

But while Joe's wife was pregnant, the Rose changed again, and the couple were told she couldn't keep the baby.

My wife had to hide herself in a neighbouring village.

We wanted to keep the baby so she never went out.

But someone tipped off the local authorities.

After the tip-off, local officials put pressure on Jo Gogon-Hern

to persuade his wife to have an abortion.

They said, wouldn't get a pay rise unless my wife terminated the pregnancy.

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