The government in China plans to end its one﹣child per family policy and

（1） 　　[in'sted] let families have two children．

   People（2） 　　[ nju：] the news after an important meeting in Beijing． It's reported that there are many（3） 　　（原因）for the change in policy． One of them is to balance population development．

   China has the（4） 　　population in the world． It carried out the one﹣child policy in 1980． But the government（5） 　　[ə'laʊd] only a small number of couples to have two children．For example，in the countryside，（6） 　　the first﹣born is a girl， couples can have a second child．

   In 2013， the Chinese government gave other couples a（7） 　　（机会）to have two children．Families could have two if one parent was an only child．（8） 　　（然而）， too many young people in the cities aren't（9） 　　in having a second child any longer．

   At the end（10） 　　2014， China had a population of 1.37 billion people． A total of 800 million of them are employed（雇佣）． With the two﹣child policy， an increase in births will change the labor shortage．