The Hong Kong government on Wednesday announced that private hospitals in the city would next year stop taking bookings from mainland Chinese mothers seeking to give birth in the city to obtain residency rights for their children.
The issue of mainland mothers having babies in the city has become increasingly emotive in Hong Kong, which has a different political and legal system from China. Many locals are resentful of mainland Chinese using that route to obtain education and residency rights for their children. The influx has also put pressure on Hong Kong’s hospitals.
Campaigners who want to curb the number of mothers from mainland China coming over the border to give birth have labelled them “locusts”.
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