Local government denies sterilization for hukou

Officials in Jiubao, a town in Ruijin, Jiangxi province, denied that it requires its female residents to undergo sterilization surgery before a newborn baby is given hukou (household registration).

The denial came after a woman said she filed an application for administrative reconsideration with the Ruijin government because the police in Jiubao refused to issue hukou for her son, who was born there in 2011, because she didn't undergo tubal ligation surgery, a kind of sterilization in which a woman's fallopian tubes are clamped or severed to prevent future pregnancy.

The 30-year-old woman, surnamed Song, said the boy still has not been given hukou.