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A notice explaining how the social fostering fee (aka family planning fine) is collected posted on the bulletin board of the family planning office at Danshan, Sichuan photographed in September 2005. I took this picture when I visited Danshan in Ziyang region of Sichuan Province.

The social fostering fee [shehui fuyang fei] also known as a family planning fine, is collected as a multiple of either the annual disposable income of city dwellers or the annual cash income of peasants as determined each year by the local statistics office. The fine for a child born above the birth quota that year is thus a multiple of , depending upon the locality, of either urban resident disposable income or peasant cash income estimated that year by the local statistics. So a fine for a child born ten years ago is based about the income estimate for the year of the child's birth and not of the current year. This public notice explaining how the fine is calculated may have been posted to make it harder for officials to cheat people.