China's one-child policy will keep birth rates low, but as life expectancy continues to increase, so will the dependency ratio, reducing the country's potential for growth.

中国的独生子女政策将保持人口出生率低下，但是由于平均寿命继续提高，抚养比率将会上升，这将降低国家的发展潜力。

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Because of the country's one-child policy, it is likely graduates will have to support their parents and possibly two sets of grandparents as well.

由于实行独生子女政策，这些毕业生很有可能还要赡养他们的父母，甚至可能还要赡养祖父母和外祖父母。

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The "one-child policy" is not, however, as simple as it sounds.

然而，“独子政策”的实施，并非听上去那么的简单。

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Billionaire Chen Guangbiao, who is attending the two sessions as a guest, says the one-child policy should be scrapped for university graduates, while those who fail to complete nine years of compulsory schooling should not be allowed to have any children unless they live in remote areas, the newspaper reports.

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Known to many as China's one-child policy, the rules limit most urban couples to one child and allow two children for rural families if their firstborn is a girl.

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But while it has so far relied on a low-cost manufacturing strategy for its success, it is shifting gears as a restless work force and the results of its one-child policy threaten its manufacturing advantage.

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