China's Family Planning Association has launched a nationwide charity program to offer financial aid to needy one-child families.

CFPA has received RMB13.9 million in donations from 12 units, enterprises and individuals in support of the program. Jiang Chunyun, director of CFPA, says that China has made remarkable achievements in family planning in the past 30 years and the country's population has been reduced by 400 million, which has brought great benefit to the country's economic growth.

Jiang says solving the difficulty of needy one-child families and the elderly is of great significance to China's family planning work and the building of a harmonious society. The program will continue to focus on offering financial aid and comfort to the concerned families.

China's family planning policy went into force in 1973.