一日译练 |计划生育的尽头？

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一个国家要发展壮大，没有人不行，人太多不行，人太老也不行。回顾我们国家的发展历程，从刚成立之初，百废待兴，倡导人多力量大多生孩子，到后面慢慢发现人口过多造成了粮食和住房短缺，于是国家又开始推行计划生育政策。进入了两千年后，发现人口有老龄化趋势，劳动年龄人口减少，如果再这样下去，中国的人口可能有近24%年龄达到65岁或以上。政府不得不又放开了计划生育，鼓励年轻夫妇多生一个。

但是政策放开了，国民真的就会多生孩子吗？就能解决老龄化问题吗？请听今天的练习吧~

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After decades of limiting families to just one child, China has a new message for couples. Please have another baby. Why the change of heart? In short, China is aging and losing its working population. Although China changed its rules in 2016 to allow couples to have as many as two children. That hasn't convinced enough parents to have more than one. High living costs, long work hours and surging child care expenses means that many couples feel that they can only afford to have one child or even none.

On top of that, a study found that 33 percent of women had their pay cut after giving birth and 36 percent were demoted. If they want to reverse the demographic trends that they're currently facing, they will not only have to deal with the cost of having a child, they'll also be fighting against demographic and social trends in which people are having fewer and fewer children.

To counter that trend the Government is considering lifting all limits on the number of children a family can have. Otherwise, by 2040, one quarter of the world's most populous country will be 65 or older which threatens an economic boom that's been built on a vast labor supply. Countries don't usually become Great Powers when they're old and graying they become Great Powers when they're young and vigorous. And if Xi Jinping wants to complete that transition, he may need to build a younger country that can pull it off.

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