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标题：If women don’t want children, will cash fix it?

正文：1.To get a sense of China’s demographic problem, consider the generations of my family. My great-grandmother had nine children. My grandmother had three by the age of 27. My mother had only one by the same age. I’m now a few years older than that milestone, and I still don’t want kids yet. You can imagine the anxious conversations my grandma and mum have with me. But they know that I’m hardly an exception, in the UK or in China. For Chinese women, the average age of first marriage has risen from 22 in the 1980s to 28 now, and the average age women have their first child is now about 29; in Beijing and Shanghai it is even higher.

2.Birth decline is a global crisis, and the Chinese situation is among the most severe. It
took only seven years for the number of annual births to halve, a grim milestone that took Japan 41 years. China now accounts for more than a quarter of the world’s elderly but only 7 per cent of the world’s newborns. If, as the UN forecasts, China’s population halves by 2100, with almost half aged over 65, then it will have grown old before it grew rich, its hegemonic ambitions under serious threat from younger challengers, the likes of India and Nigeria.

知识点：halve v. /hɑːv/
to reduce something to half its original size or amount 使减半
• The company has halved its carbon emissions in the past decade. 这家公司在过去十年中将碳排放量减半。
• The number of road accidents has halved since the new speed limits were introduced. 自从引入新限速后，道路交通事故数量减少了一半。

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