It insists that, thanks to the policy, 400m births were averted which would otherwise have taken place, and which the country could not have afforded.

坚持认为，多亏实施了独生子女政策才避免了4亿新生儿的降生，否则国家也担负不起。

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China has almost a fifth of the world's population. The one-child policy, in place since 1980, has averted an estimated 400 million births.

中国人口占全世界的近五分之一。从1980年开始实施的独生子女政策避免了大约4亿人口的降生。

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