China used to fine couples for having too many babies. Now it can’t pay them enough

Hong Kong
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Zane Li was nine years old when he got a baby sister – and her arrival plunged the family in a small city in eastern China into crippling debt.

Under China’s stringent one-child policy at the time, Li’s parents were fined 100,000 yuan (about $13,900) for having a second child – nearly…