he year 1 A. D. The population crisis is acknowledged as a\rmajor obstacle in the path of worldwide efforts to raise levels of living, and even as a\rthreat to world peace.\rAs a country that sustains more than 22 percent of the world' s population with\ronly 7 percent of the world' s cultivated land, China considers it indispensable to\rcontrol the excessive population growth. Therefore, China launched the “one couple,\rone child“ family planning policy in the late 1970s, and succeeded in bringing down\rthe country' s birth rate from he then 30 per thousand to 16.5 per thousand in 1997.\rIV Assignments and Unit Sum-up lOmins\r1. Recite the appointed words, proverbs and sentences\r2. Translation and after-class reading\r3. Discuss the ways of preventing AIDS
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