时间:2019-01-12 作者:英语课 分类:2015年VOA慢速英语(十一)月


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AS IT IS 2015-10-30 China Ends One–Child Policy 中国结束独生子女政策将全面实施普遍二孩政策


The government in China plans to end its one-child per family policy and instead let families have two children.


The plan was announced Thursday after high-level political meetings in Beijing. The official Xinhua news agency says the country’s top legislature must approve the proposal before it becomes law.


A Chinese Communist Party statement gave a number of reasons for the change in policy. The statement said the change is meant to balance population development. It said the move also attempts to stop a declining birth rate and strengthen the country’s work force. 


China - the world’s most populous 1 country - launched the one-child policy in 1980. But the government permitted only a small number of couples to have two children. For example, some rural families were given approval to have two children.


A total of 19 rural provinces have a partial two-child policy. That policy states if the first-born is a girl, a second child is permitted.


In 2013, the Chinese government gave other couples a chance to have two children. Families could have two if one parent was an only child.


A teacher and population expert, Jiang Quanbao, explained how Chinese families will react to the policy.


“Too many young people in the cities are probably no longer interested in having a second child,” he said. “People in rural farming villages may be more interested. But again, some of them are already allowed to have two children.”


At the end of 2014, China had a population of 1.37 billion people. A total of 800 million of them are employed. But that job market population is expected to drop by 2050. With the two-child policy, an increase in births will ease the labor 2 shortage, starting in 20 years.


Words in This Story


boost – v. to increase the force, power or amount of something


populous – adj. having a large population


province – n. any one of the large parts that some countries are divided into



adj.人口稠密的,人口众多的
  • London is the most populous area of Britain.伦敦是英国人口最稠密的地区。
  • China is the most populous developing country in the world.中国是世界上人口最多的发展中国家。
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
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