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二胎新政策英语作文与计划生育有关4 JUDY WOODRUFF: Joining me now to discuss thechange is Mei Fong, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistwith over a decade of experience covering Asia.Shes the author of the upcoming book One Story of Chinas Most Radical Experiment. Mei Fong, welcome to the program. So, just how significant a shift in policy is this forChinas communist leadership? MEI FONG, One Child: Well, your segment mentioned too little too late, and thats reallykind of what it is. For the past 15 years now, a lot of experts of demographics, economists, demographers, havebeen asking for this change to happen. They have all warned of the aging tsunami thats goingto happen. They have warned of the gender imbalances. But the Chinese government has beenvery, very slow to change it, so actually the question is not why it happened now, but why hasit taken so long to happen. JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, why do you think they decided now? I mean, we heard some of thereasons there, but what — what do you think has led them to do this right now? MEI FONG: Well, its a looming crisis thats affecting the economic growth of the future. Right now, there are about five working adults to support one retiree in China. Thats a prettygood ratio. But in 20 years time, thats going to be 1.6 working adults to one elderly retiree.Thats a huge difference. And theres not going to be enough people to pay in for all thesepension imbalances and support an aging population that, if it were its own country, would bethe third largest country in the world after China and India. JUDY WOODRUFF: How representative, Mei Fong, is the story we just saw of that family?They had two daughters. And one of the daughters is basically a non-person. MEI FONG: They call them heihaizi, black children, because they dont exist. Theyre non-people. There are about, estimated, between 13 to 15 million of these children that — not necessarilychildren. Now some of th