摘要
The Outlines of the Ten-Y car Programme and the Eighth Five-Ycar Plan for National Economic and Social Devclopment oi the People's Republic of China propose that"(reilt cfiorts must be made during the coming dccadc to rcstrict the a\cragc ratc of natural increasc in China's population to no morc than 12.5 per thousand."Fulfilling the goul of controlling population growth is critical t0 the realization of the second-and third-step strategic targcts for the modermization of the country.Therefore.following dccisions have bccn made to achieve the fixed objcctives.
