Dmitri..all the numbers I quoted were found by searching the internet. Regardless of what anyone thinks the problem is the Chinese Gov't telling you how many children you are allowed to have. It is wrong and nothing they can say or do will every make it right.
People need to be able to determine how large their family will be, not the gov't and that is the problem of living in China when the Gov't goes so far as to control everything you do.
The story of the fine was on the internet in a news story a week or so ago. Regardless whether the fine was due to corruption or not the bottom line is it was still imposed.
I guess if China is such a wonderful place to live why was there such a migration of citizens from Hong Kong to Canadain the years before China took over, I am guessing it was because they all knew what a bunch of BS was imposed on the population in mainland China and were scared spitless it would happen in HK.
Heck my son's friends from university (Mainland Chinese studying here) told me the Gov't even lies to the world what the total population actually is. These two young men were from very privledged families with buckets of money with well connected parents, they were in the position of knowledge that most do not have.
There are some large families, unfortunately the birth rate of 1.21% proves there are very few large families nowadays.