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必需承認(rèn)，我們的國家人實在是太多了。計劃生育實行以來，人口的增長被控制了，但人口比例失調(diào)和老齡化問題又成了社會不穩(wěn)定的巨大隱憂。今年有兩會委員提議放開生二胎政策，引起很大的爭論。如果政策允許，你，愿意要第二個孩子嗎？

The proposal is from Wang Yuqing, a deputy director of the Committee of Population, Resources and Environment.

He is being quoted as saying he favors a gradual opening of a two-child per family policy, and says he believes the current limitations will be lifted by the end of the five-year plan in 2015.

The current family planning policy was initiated in 1979 to control China's rapidly growing population.

But some negative side effects have emerged, including a rapidly aging population.

Peng Xizhe is the Director of the Institute of Population Research at Fudan University.

"The one-child policy has fulfilled the goal initially set. Negative effects will pile up if it continues."

The President of Renmin University, Ji Baocheng, claims the labor force population between the ages of 28 and 40 will be halved in 10 years.

As an example, in Shanghai, which has the highest urban population in China, the number of Shanghai natives -- as in those with a Hukou -- has actually been dropping for the last 17 years in a row, even though the city's population has been increasing.

A possible reason for Shanghai parents not choosing to have a second child could be the rising cost of everyday expenses, particularly the cost of education.

"I don't think I'll have a second child if the limit is removed. I'm simply a wage-earner, and I find it difficult enough to raise one child, so I won't consider the second."

But at the same time, there are still people who think it would be nice to have two children.

"I will think about it. A lot of parents now are the only child in families, to have two kids means they can look after each other in the future, and of course, there'll be financial burden."

One-Child Policy has been relaxed in certain ways over the years.

In cities such as Shanghai and Beijing, if a couple is both the product of the one-child policy, they're allowed to have two kids.

Certian ethnic minority groups have been exempt from the rules entirely.

And families in rural areas whose first child is a girl are also allowed to have a second child without punishment.
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It remains unclear as to how the proposed two-child policy will work, though it's being suggested that several big cities will be selected to try it before it's brought in around the country.

For CRI, I'm Wang Jing.

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