Although Chinese officials may have hoped that the verdict would bring conversations about the case to a neat close, the lenient sentences were met with an overwhelmingly negative response from the public.
Allegations of Chinese family planners engaging in child trafficking more than three decades ago has brought a dark chapter in the country’s birth control history back to the spotlight.
Here are three key social issues that were brought up at China’s biggest political event of the year.
China’s efforts to contain the chained mother scandal have only sparked more outrage online, and many turned to this phrase to express their anger.
In the absence of a full reckoning by government officials about the mother of eight found chained inside a shack in rural Jiangsu Province, calls for a transparent investigation continue on Chinese social media despite heavy censorship.