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is 6% per annum, with a repayment period up to 24 months. The loans issued have already exceeded the budget and the authorities have had to impose certain measures to reduce the number of applications. These include lending less than the sum applied for and rejecting further applications from those with outstanding loans. Renhua no longer Undeveloped
12.
A worker employed by the Renhua Woodware Factory in Renhua County, said Renhua was once a backward and primitive county, but since Danxia Mountain was designated a tourist spot it has become a modern city with restaurants, cinemas and guest houses. Between four and five thousand construc- tion workers from other counties, such as Meixian, Xingning, Yingde and Wengyuan, are employed in the construction indus- try in Renhua.
Birth Control Campaign
13.
A married
Traveller said the birth control laws are strictly
enforced in the County and campaigns have been launched to
criticise and educate those who do not conform.
couple must limit the number of children to two. child will be deprived of grain rations until the age of 14
and will not be allotted farmland until he or she is able to
do farmwork.
Hainan Island
A third
14.
A worker employed by the Haikou Municipal Chemical Works in Hainan Island said about 100 workers are employed
by the Chemical Works. Fertiliser for use in the rural com-
munes is produced by burning coconut shells to ashes.
15.
Despite the rapid industrial development in other counties, agriculture still remains the main industry of Hainan Island. A range of state-operated rubber and pine- apple plantation farms have been established, but disputes between the farm workers and the commune members regarding the boundaries have occurred. The local government recently demarcated the boundaries between the plantation farms and the arable land of the communes and this has pacified the rural commune peasants.
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