中國計生官員面臨工作職能新轉變
As China's one-child policy comes to an end after the National People's Congress wrote into law that all couples are allowed to have two children, the family-planning commission is facing a shift in their work.
自全國人民代表大會制定法律允許所有夫婦可以生育兩個孩子以後，中國的獨生子女政策走到了盡頭，計劃生育部門正在面臨着工作角色的轉換。Just a few years ago, stories about the administration forcing women to have abortions were still in the news, but now their task has changed. The half million family planning officials, from national down to township-level offices, have begun to look for a new role.
幾年前，關於有關部門強迫婦女流產的故事仍然是新聞頭條，但是現在，他們的任務卻發生了變化。包括從國家官員到地方官員共計50萬人的計生官員，現在已經開始尋找新的角色。
The family planning commission in Danfeng township, in Shangluo county, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, established a "babies' early development center" last November to provide services to newborns from 0 to 3 years old. It's part of a program initiated by the National Health and Family Planning Commission to improve parenting quality in rural areas.
去年11月，中國西北部陝西省商洛縣丹鳳鎮計劃生育委員會成立了一個兒童早期培育中心，向0-3歲的新生兒提供服務。這是國家衛生和計劃生育委員會爲提高農村養育質量的項目的一部分。
At a week-long training session, 70 rural officials were taught scientific parenting methods and given toys and picture books.
在一週的訓練期內，70名村官被傳授了科學的育兒方法，並且得到了玩具和圖畫書。They consult young couples at the centers, and each official is allocated several rural families to look after. Li Bo and his colleague Yan Shuxia are in charge of eight families. Every other week they visit the families one by one, bringing a sack full of toys and books, and during their one-hour stay in each home, they play with the baby and show the parents how to get along with and raise the infant. Detailed physical data is recorded for each baby, and they also jot down four development indicators of movement, language ability, social sentiment and recognition for each of the babies.
之後，他們爲年輕夫婦提供相關諮詢，並且每個官員被分配要求照顧幾個農村家庭。李波和他的同事閆淑霞共負責八個家庭。每隔一週，他們就會挨家挨戶的訪問自己照顧的家庭，帶着一袋玩具和書籍，在每個家庭停留一個小時的時間。在這裏他們和孩子玩耍，向家長展示怎麼和嬰兒相處，以及如何撫養他們。每個孩子詳細的生理數據也會被記錄下來，此外，他們還會記下每個孩子的四項成長指標，包括運動，語言能力，社會感知力和認知力。Their work is not without difficulties. Some of them were mistaken for child-traffickers, and some parents refused the toys for fear they cost money.
不過，他們的工作並不是一帆風順。有些父母誤以爲這是兒童綁架，還有些父母因爲害怕收費而拒絕接收玩具。Efforts will be made to change the old mindset among both officials and members of the public. Having received positive feedback from many families, the county has begun the second phase of training for the project.
爲了改變官員和社會大衆的舊觀念，政府將作出努力。目前已經收到了一些家庭的積極反饋，該縣已經開始了訓練計劃的第二階段。
