When Jane Huang picked up the phone to answer a call earlier this month, her first response to the person on the end was to laugh.
“Ni Hao! Is that Ms Huang? Sorry to disturb you. I am from your sub district office, are you pregnant now?”
Huang, a 35-year-old working mother of one son who lives in the southeast coastal province of Fujian, said the overly-enthusiastic social worker even asked about the timing of her most recent period and offered to give her a reminder call when it was “the right time” to conceive another baby.
“I laughed so hard when I told my husband about it. The surveyor must be from the previous generation, who did not realise that she was talking to a whole different generation that values privacy, quality of life and choices much more,” she said.
