Look at your watch for just one During that time，The popuiation of the world increased by Perhaps you think that is Hoever，during the next hour，over15540 more babies will be born on the So it goes on，hour after In oneday，people have to produce food fover 370000 more Multiply this justthink how many more there will be in one year!What will happen in a hundred years? The increasing population may be the greatest challenge of the world The world's population is growing faster and Two thousang years ago，there only 250millon people on the At the beining of the20thcentury，the world'spopulation was about In 1990，it reached more than five Now at the beininjg of the 21stcentthe world's population has passed six people say that by the yeay 2010it may be seven That means in about 600 years，there will br standing room only on the Each person will have one half to one square metre of space to live There will be hardly enough space ror angbody It has been estimated that a thousand years ago there were less than 400 million people on However， in the recent thousand years human population has increased nearly 20 Nowadays the world population has reached more than 7000 The population explosion has caused many Generally， they come down to four major First， a lot of people can't get employment， which is a universal problem in the Second， in developing countries there are not enough shelters for too many people and so people are not properly housed and even are exposed to the Third， in underdeveloped countries a lot of people suffer from hunger because of food shortage， which in turn causes many other problems， malnutrition， disease， Fourth， there are not enough schools for so many people and so a lot of people are Therefore， to eliminate these problems， human beings should take effective measures to control
Regional Adjustment Permitted to Solve Population Problem The population structural contradiction in China is growing with every passing day and the next 15 years will be crucial for China to tackle this The population policies in China will remain unchanged and there will be only some supplement and improvement that allows the regional readjustment to solve the problems， says the Legal D The "One-child policy" China adopted in the late 1970s and the early 1980s has effectively controlled nation's total population and reduced newborn babies by 300 The childbirth level has dropped to that of the developed Consequently， the problems such as the gender disproportion of newborn babies and aging The gender disproportion of newborn babies began to rise from the middle of The number climbed from 47 in 1980 to 92 in 2000， nearly 117 boys were born as against an average of 100 girls， which largely deviated from the normal range of 103 to The population structural contradiction is also illustrated by the growing aging Currently， there are 88 million senile citizens over 65 years of age， which takes up 7 percent of the total national It is estimated that the aged population above 65 will make up 8 percent of the nation's total by 2020， and 25 percent by the mid 21 The emergence of the population structural contradiction changed the regional childbirth It is reported that Shanghai municipal government has abolished the double material rewards to the couple who does not bear child and ease the conditions for the one who wants to have a second Yu， Xuejun， director of the Policy and Regulations Department of National Population and Family Planning Commission， said the change Shanghai has made is a regional readjustment and within the nation's general population It does not overrun the national principle， the basic "one-child policy" for family The next 15 years starting from now will be the crucial period for China's population development， pointed out Yu X All the negative influences foreseen and unforeseen when stipulating "one-child policy" will come to In this 15-year-long crucial period， China's population will remain unchanged and there will be only some supplement and China's population will climb to its peak of 6 billion by But if every couple has a second child， that peak will arrive 10 years As long as we maintain the current childbirth rate， the nation's total population will be kept within 5 billion by
