Cloning experiment on show in south China
2009-05-07 Source：travelpod
Edinburgh is home to that cloned sheep right? What's her name? Dolly.
Well, right now, on the other side of the world, there is a call for human clones. They want as many as possible. They want them to gather this Thursday in a sub-tropical place known for holiday-making merriment, KTV, massage parlours and hookers. And this week, the start of the Chinese National Holiday - 1 May - the start of Golden Week (prices increased two or three-fold in hotels), all twins are asked to head to the south of Yunnan, in the south of China. Don't believe me? Look at this: Mojiang is very beautiful city which locates in XiShuangbanna.There will be a Twins' Day in this city from 5.1 to 5.3.The organizers want to invite some foreign twins to attend.Expense include traffic,meal and hotel is free.
If the foreign twins are in Yunnan province now,they can first connect with the organizers by email or phone first.Then if they decide to go,just come to the office and go with the whole group.So they needn't pay anything about their jounery,including traffic fees and meals. Specially: 1,Twins are talented,who are able to sing,dance or play the musical instrument are suggested to attend the competition,but only have 40 quota of all. Awards in Compitition: Champion: 30,000RMBbonus,notebook,cup,certificate Runner-up: 20,000RMBbonus,digital camera,cup,certificate Third: 10,000RMBbonus,cellphone,cup,certificate Excellent awards: 3,000RMBbonus,certificate Hortative awards: a suit of keepsake of this Twins' Day,certificate 2, Every twins has the qualification to win a prize in a lottery. The prize include notebooks,digital cameras,cellphones,Yunnan tea. In a Yahoo forum, someone asked what they do with twins in China, given their one-child policy. This policy, you should note, doesn't not apply so strictly to 'ethnic minorities', particularly rural families. And now in the cities rich families pay their way out of it. While some of the forum answers were like 'boil and eat one' and 'eenie meanie minnie moe', it seems that as twins is not something anyone has control over, it is counted as one child under the policy. This from the Times: DOCTORS in southern China have warned women to stop using fertility drugs to foil the often brutally enforced policy of one child per couple after the number of twins born last year doubled in many hospitals. A propaganda campaign in the state media over the past few weeks has amounted to an admission by officials that newly prosperous Chinese couples are exploiting a loophole in the law to produce several babies at once. Further clarification is provided for one correspondant: In China, you need to get a "permit certificate" before a child is born. 1. People who have only child in their family enjoy benefits from the government. 2. People who disobey the only child policy will get punishment, normally USD 500 per child after the first one. 3. If they got twins, they cannot enjoy the benefits neither being punishment. 4. Two "only child" get married, this couple can have two kids. So while the birth of twin pandas in Chengdu is treated with pride, the increase in twins from humans is seen as perhaps meddling with genetics (and good luck - 'double the happiness, double the fun' as one banner for the twins festival puts it). But if you can't make it to XiShuangbanna this Thursday to be in to win US$4,200 (divided between you and your twin brother or sister) or to view the singing, dancing and instrument playing, or if you merely an uncloned human, a friend assures me that 'twins' can be found in most places around the world, sometimes 'twin sisters' are found working for escort agencies. |
