A Chinese teacher was ordered by a province to terminate her pregnancy after another town allowed her to give birth to another child, a family planning officer said on Tuesday.

Qin Yi's case shows the problem of having different family planning policies in different towns in China. Although China has loosened its one-child policy after 35 years, some towns still do not allow couples to bear two children, according to Star Tribune.

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Qin and Meng Shaoping, her husband, had a child with their previous partners. The province of Guizhou will not allow the newlyweds to have their own baby because of their situation.

On Monday, Guizhou's education bureau and health and family planning commission posted an announcement confirming the ruling.

The notice also said Qin must terminate her pregnancy before the month of May ends. If she fails to do so, the five-month-pregnant woman will be kicked out from her job, a local newspaper relayed.

The pregnant Qin and her husband Meng sought permission to bear another child from authorities in her hometown, Huangshan. The schoolteacher is registered as a resident in Huangshan, a city located in the eastern province of Anhui.

However, authorities have launched an investigation to confirm whether Qin only registered her residency in the said town this just to obtain permission to give birth, the health officer who confirmed the case said.

In Anhui, couples are allowed to bear another child if they only have a maximum of two kids from their previous partners. In contrast to Anhui, the province of Guizhou allows a couple to bear an additional child if they have only one child from their previous marriages, the report explained.

Qin's case brings to light the different ways that cities and provinces implement the national family planning policy. In 2013, China slackened its one-child policy and began allowing couples to have two children for families where one parent has no siblings. But different areas began changing this rule as time passed.

China claims its one-child policy prevents 400 million births. But demographers disagree, saying the policy has no real bearing on the country's birth rate as it would still have plunged as the nation's economy and educational status improved, the report stated.

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