词汇: 增长（更大和更老） Vocabulary: growing
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As China's economy has grown bigger, its population has grown older. But is China growing too old, too fast?
The one-child policy has caused a decline in the birth rate, while the average age has gone up. One in four permanent residents in Shanghai is retired, and the rest of China will soon be just as mature. The Chinese population is no spring chicken: by the year 2050, a third of Chinese people will be over the age of 60.
A demographer from Fudan University said that "the speed of ageing in China is unique." It has only taken China 20 years to reach an age profile that took Britain or France 60 or 70 years.
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发表于 2016-7-15 00:00:49
