「辽宁瓦房店政府挪用“独生子女补贴” 数百农村老人集体维权（2025.11.24）」本周一（11月24日），辽宁大连瓦房店市发生60岁以上农村老人集体维权事件。数百名来自当地十余个乡镇的农村独生子女父母聚集在市政府门前，要求当地政府尽快兑现承诺，发放长期拖欠的独生子女父母补贴。
“独生子女父母补贴”是大连市自2004年起实施的一项计划生育配套政策，用于鼓励农村家庭只生育一个小孩。根据该政策，凡1933年1月1日以后出生、年满60岁的农村独生子女父母，每人可领取960元补贴。然而，这笔本就微薄的补贴自2021年起便开始被拖欠。虽然在老人们多次维权后，瓦房店政府补发了2021年的款项，但2022年至今的补贴仍未发放。有老人直言，这笔专项资金极有可能已经被地方政府挪作他用。一位参与维权的老人透露，她为此数次赴京上访，交通与时间成本早已超过补贴金额本身。
在持续不断的压力下，瓦房店市政府领导曾多次承诺补发欠款。一名市长曾表示将在2025年10月底完成发放，但承诺未能兑现。11月5日，在数百名老人再次集体维权后，相关领导又承诺将于11月15日补发部分款项，但这一承诺依旧落空。
在本周一的维权现场，老人们特地请来了一名年轻律师，希望借助法律途径与政府沟通。但面对律师和数百名老人，政府工作人员仍以各种理由推脱，未能提出任何明确的解决方案或付款时间表。最终，这场持续数小时的维权行动仍旧无果而终。这些年龄已超过六旬的老人们，只能带着新的失望再次离开。
事实上，独生子女父母补贴被长期拖欠的问题并非瓦房店市独有。据“昨天”项目统计，在中国北方地区，近年来已经出现多起因政府拖欠独生子女补贴而引发的老人维权事件。在与瓦房店市相邻的大连普兰店区和庄河市，农村老人们虽然已经发起过多次维权行动，但至今仍有长达三年的“独生子女补贴”没有拿到。
“Liaoning Wafangdian Government Diverts ‘One-Child Allowance’ Funds, Hundreds of Rural Elderly Protest (2025.11.24)”
On Monday (November 24), a collective protest involving rural elderly over the age of 60 took place in Wafangdian, a county-level city under Dalian in Liaoning Province. Hundreds of rural parents of one-child families, coming from more than a dozen local townships, gathered in front of the city government to demand that officials honor their promise and pay out the long-overdue one-child parent allowance.
The one-child parent allowance is a family-planning support policy implemented in Dalian since 2004 to encourage rural families to have only one child. Under this policy, rural parents of one-child families born after January 1, 1933, and aged 60 or above, are eligible to receive an annual subsidy of 960 yuan per person. However, even this modest allowance has been in arrears since 2021. Although, after repeated protests, the Wafangdian government eventually paid the 2021 allowance, the payments for 2022 onward remain outstanding. Some elderly residents bluntly stated that the designated funds were very likely diverted by local authorities for other uses. One protester revealed that she had traveled to Beijing multiple times to petition, and the travel costs and time spent had long exceeded the amount of the subsidy itself.
Facing mounting pressure, Wafangdian officials have repeatedly promised to repay the arrears. The mayor once said that the payments would be completed by the end of October 2025, but the pledge was never fulfilled. On November 5, after hundreds of elderly residents protested again, officials promised to issue part of the overdue funds by November 15 — yet this promise also went unfulfilled.
At Monday’s protest, the elderly residents invited a young lawyer in hopes of opening a formal legal dialogue with the government. But even in the presence of the lawyer and hundreds of elderly citizens, government staff continued to evade responsibility with various excuses, offering neither a clear plan nor any timeline for repayment. After several hours, the protest ended without any resolution. The elderly — all now well into their sixties — had no choice but to leave once again, disappointed.
In fact, long-term arrears of the one-child parent allowance are not unique to Wafangdian. According to statistics from the “Yesterday” project, similar protests by elderly residents have emerged across northern China in recent years over unpaid one-child allowances. In Dalian’s adjacent districts — Pulandian and Zhuanghe — rural elderly have already staged multiple protests, yet many have still not received up to three years’ worth of the allowance.