Xin'an

— One village in Xin’an county in Henan province has 120 women of childbearing age. Except for five women who are sterile, the rest each have three, four, or even five children. The husbands of these women are prosperous, and willing to accept financial penalties in order to have more children. “The fines are no problem for us, it’s just a matter of raising one more ox or two pigs. We don’t mind paying,” say the village farmers.

— The Hong Kong region belonged to Xinan county, under the charge of the county magistrate, whose yamen or official office was located in the walled city of Nantou within present-day Shenzhen.