Director Zhang Goes “Missing”

This is a piece of news claiming that Yimou Zhang, one of the best-known movie directors in China, could neither be found nor located during the past few days. The ground was that Zhang hid to avoid punishment concerning China's one-child policy from authorities. The warrant was that he had at least seven children and could be liable for a 160 million yuan ($26.3 million) fine! Then the passage backing that Wuxi Municipal Population and Family Planning Commission, a commission of his wife’s hometown, had done everything possible to contact Zhang and his wife. They dispatched a work team that rushed to Beijing to look for Yimou Zhang, and sent many letters to the Beijing Film Group and the Guangxi Film Group trying to contact Zhang, but they could not find the couple at all. A rebuttal of the claim should be that Yimou Zhang is a very accomplished director, who dazzled the world in 2008 with his Beijing Olympic ceremonies. However, the government responded that "No matter who is involved, illegal births will have to be dealt with in accordance with the law." There is only one exception on one-child-policy in China, which is that couples are allowed to have a second child only if one of the couple is an only child.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-11/21/content_17119771.htm