Beijing will impose fines on celebrities who violate the one-child rule that will be much higher than for common citizens, a senior family planning official said on Sunday.

China’s efforts to control population growth in the present may cause problems for the county’s senior citizens in the future.

Chinese authorities have liberalized the country's birth-control policy allowing urban families to have two children in some circumstances, the Xinhua news agency quoted a senior official at the family planning commission as saying Wednesday.

Resentment toward China's one-child policy has led to a second round of violent protests in southwestern China's Guangxi Province. Joseph Popiolkowski reports from Hong Kong that peasants there are seeking refunds of fines imposed on them for having more children than allowed.