Cleaning up our slogans

The key to cleaning family planning slogans lies in renewing the administrative concept of some officials, says an editorial in Beijing News. The following is an excerpt:

The National Population and Family Planning Commission recently decided to clean inappropriate slogans and regulate the use of slogans nationwide. It is true that inappropriate slogans are very common. Many such catch phrases go against the human-oriented principle and are peremptory or coercive.

It is undeniable that slogans have played an important role in spreading the country's population and family planning policies as well as scientific knowledge of reproductive health, promote the implementation of the national policy and create a fine population environment in the past many years. But the negative impact brought up by some slogans cannot be underestimated.