Slogan promoting family planning. (Internet image)
[People News] Peng Peiyun, former director of the CCP’s National Family Planning Commission, died of illness on December 21. She had led the harsh “one-child policy” for as long as 10 years. While the CCP’s official narrative is full of praise for her, netizens have instead set off a wave of criticism, angrily condemning the cruel one-child policy for causing countless families to be torn apart and lives destroyed. Some cursed her as the most murderous demon in CCP history, and others wrote maledictions such as: “Those children who died naked are waiting for you over there.”
According to publicly available information, Peng Peiyun served as director of the CCP’s National Family Planning Commission from 1988 to 1998, a full decade. This period coincided with the most severe enforcement of the CCP’s policy of “one child per couple.” To meet family-planning targets, local officials nationwide adopted “extra-legal” methods such as dragging away cattle and pigs, tearing down walls and houses, implicating entire families, and forcing abortions and sterilizations, coercing women into abortions and sterilization surgeries. This brought profound disasters to hundreds of millions of Chinese people, especially women. During this period, there were even repeated cases in which family-planning officials killed newborn babies on the spot right after birth. Later, this further evolved into seizing infants and selling them to orphanages for profit.
More than 30 years of the one-child policy turned obstetrics and gynecology medical staff—who should have been welcoming new lives into the world—into cold-blooded baby killers. Many of the infants who were killed were already full-term babies about to be born when they were forced out.
The inhumane family-planning policy has for decades been strongly condemned by Western countries. On November 19, 2013, Spain’s National Court issued arrest warrants for Peng Peiyun and five other former high-ranking CCP officials, including former CCP leader Jiang Zemin, accusing them of genocide crimes in Tibet.
Although Peng Peiyun has died of illness, no one on China’s Weibo expressed mourning. Netizens’ deep hatred of the one-child policy has not diminished; instead, more people have voiced severe denunciations of that period of history.
Netizens wrote on Weibo: “Those lost children, naked, are waiting for you over there (in the underworld),” “Back then it was the family-planning office; today it’s the birth-promotion office—our wombs don’t even belong to us,” “Chives and human mines—harvestable and discardable, completely at the mercy of the Party mom,” “The CCP’s methods of dealing with the people are truly ruthless—normal people wouldn’t even treat livestock with such cruelty,” “This is really too unfair; people like this deserve to be whipped after death. Forcing induced labor at eight months pregnant is murder. It’s utterly despicable. Has such a horrific policy ever existed in human history?”
One netizen recounted, “Forty years ago, my older sister was forced to undergo induced labor when she was more than six months pregnant. When the baby was delivered, it was still alive and was then disposed of.”
Another person said that because they and their sister were ‘over-quota children,’ they have had great difficulty finding jobs for decades.
Some netizens also criticized grassroots CCP cadres for their enforcement of family planning, saying they “dragged cattle, tore down houses, scraped out fetuses, and seized grain—far more brutal than bandits.” Others mentioned many terrifying family-planning slogans, saying they “all came from the ‘Hundred-Day No-Children Campaign’ in Guan County, Shandong—Guan County became infamous because of this.”
Some netizens said: “Which of those first-generation reds didn’t give birth to a bunch of second-generation reds!”
Another popular post lamented: “If the one-child policy had been implemented ten years less, China’s population wouldn’t be collapsing like it is now!” Another netizen calculated: “If those children had been born, they would be nearly 40 years old now—right in the prime of life.” △
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