However, increasing reports of officials, tycoons and celebrities having more than one child have been causing public discontent.
"The fact that some local governments are reluctant to give penalties or they show leniency to the policy-violating officials and tycoons is one of the main reasons for the trend," said a spokesman of the provincial family planning commission in central China's Hunan Province.
This July, the commission exposed 1,968 officials who had breached the nation's one-child policy from 2000 to 2005. Also exposed were 21 national and local lawmakers, 24 political advisors, 112 entrepreneurs and six senior intellectuals.
The measure of "naming and shaming the celebrities and high-income people who violate the family planning policy" was also adopted by East China's Zhejiang Province and Central China's Henan Province, the nation's most populous region.
Meanwhile, Hunan and Zhejiang have greatly raised the fines for violations of the policy. In some cases, the fine could be more than 1 million yuan (US$130,000).
