Public Birth Announcements in China

On a bulletin board on a main street in YangXin County in Hubei province, each birth in the neighbourhood is announced. Details such as the parents’ names, place of work, date of birth, the child’s sex, date of birth, etc. are all listed. Presumably this is in the context of the one-child policy, to make public those who has more than one child, to put pressure on them … Privacy is apparently not a major concern in mainland China.