She was a poor rural village woman.

Of course, forced sterilization is not going to work in the cities. Because people with some form of certain degree of intellect understand the use of contraception and can just forgo their job or certain possession to pay the fine.

Forced sterilization was never an explicit policy. Everyone with decent intellect knows that's ridiculous.

It was practiced, of course, out of middle and low level bureaucracy's sense of "meeting the goal".

Of course CCP has not enough resources to enforce a ridiculous policy anyway.

Well I am glad that she was able to avoid it for your sake. Unfortunately, I am sure many women were not able to do so. It is very much a terrible thing.

It was a broad policy that affected millions of women.

Understood - but I think he was saying that before she even had one child, they were trying to force sterilize his mother, who was Han Chinese.

That is a new concept to me, unless maybe it was wealth / income / genetic disease related?