The World - News from Aug. 16, 1985
Chinese President Li Xiannian acknowledged that there are a “very few isolated cases” of infanticide in China but said the government is carrying out a “vigorous campaign to uproot such practices.” Li told James Grant, executive director of the U.N. Children’s Fund, that killing of girl babies by parents hoping for a son is a carryover from feudal days.
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