Beijing parents-to-be spend big, hoping to improve kids' future
By Wang Wen | China Daily | Updated: 2010-03-02 07:48
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A pregnant woman from Chinese mainland enters Hong Kong through Luohu, the main border crossing between the special administrative region and the Chinese mainland, on Feb 26. About 16,724 mainland women gave birth in Hong Kong in the first half of 2009, according to a report from the Hong Kong Hospital Authority. |
Daisy, a 28-year-old primary school teacher in Beijing, is expecting her second child. She has booked a bed in St. Teresa's Hospital in Hong Kong and plans to deliver her second baby in Hong Kong in July. Daisy refused to have her real name published for fear that if her employer found out, she would be fined three to 10 times her annual family income for having the second child.
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