Chuzhou

Last week I returned to her home town of Chuzhou, in China's eastern Anhui province, to see just how the one-child policy-quite likely to be the reason she became my daughter-is getting on these days in a province that was once a significant exporter of babies for overseas adoption.

上周，我回到我养女的家乡——中国东部省份安徽省滁州市，去看看如今计划生育政策在这个曾为海外输送了大量领养儿童的省份的执行情况。这项政策很有可能也是这个孩子当初成为我养女的原因。

Today there are more options: in the words of one Chuzhou government official, "once you have enough to eat, you do not throw away your child." Put simply, people can afford to raise girls these days rather than abandon them.

如今，人们有了更多的选择。用滁州一位政府官员的话来说：“只要吃得饱肚子，谁都不会不要自己的孩子。”简单说，如今人们养得起女孩了，用不着遗弃她们。

He is a member of China Writers'Association, of World Congress of Poets ( WCP), and a guest professor of Anhui University and College of Chuzhou.

系中国作家协会会员，世界诗人协会（WCP）会员，安徽大学兼职教授，滁州学院客座教授。