中国人口现状英语作文【合集20篇】

春节一般指正月初一，是一年的第一天，又叫阴历年，俗称“过年”;但在民间，传统意义上的春节是指从腊月的腊祭或腊月二十三或二十四的祭灶，一直到正月十九，其中以除夕和正月初一为高潮。在春节期间，中国的汉族和一些少数民族都要举行各种活动以示庆祝。

圣诞节(Christmas)又称耶诞节，译名为“基督弥撒”，西方传统节日，在每年12月25日。弥撒是教会的一种礼拜仪式。圣诞节是一个宗教节，因为把它当作耶稣的诞辰来庆祝，故名“耶诞节”。

大部分的天主教教堂都会先在24日的平安夜，亦即12月25日凌晨举行子夜弥撒，而一些基督教会则会举行报佳音，然后在12月25日庆祝圣诞节;基督教的另一大分支——东正教的圣诞节庆则在每年的1月7日。

圣诞节也是西方世界以及其他很多地区的公共假日，例如：在亚洲的香港、澳门、马来西亚和新加坡。圣经实际上并无记载耶稣诞生日期，圣诞节是后人公定的。

The chinese spring festival and the western christmas-中国的春节和西方的圣诞节

evely nation has its own folk festivals. Those festivals give people a chance to be away from their regular work and everyday worries to enjoy themselves and to develop kindship and fiiendship. The spring festival is the chief holiday in china while christmas is the most important redletter day in the western world.

the spring festival and christmas have much in common. Both are prepared hefiorehand to create a joyous atmosphere; both offer a family reunion with a square feast: and both satisfy the children with new clothes, lovely presents and delicious food. However, the chinese spring festival has no religious background while christmas has something to do with god and there is santa claus with white heard to bring children presents. The westerners send each other christmas cards for greetings while the chinese people pay a call on each other.

nowadays, some of the chinese youth has begun to celebrate christmas, following the example of the westerners. Perhaps they do so just for fun and out of curiosity.

When someone asks me: What is your Chinese dream? I will answer it without any hesitation: to be a good doctor. The reason why I want to be a doctor is that I want to save people’s lives as possible as I can. When I was young, I had a terrible car accident. Thanks to the doctors, they brought me back to life. From then on, to be a good doctor has always been an inspiration to me. I will study hard to make sure that my dream will come true in the future.

Chinese dream is made up of every ordinary people’s dreams. We should do our best to make our dream come true.

当有人问我:你的中国梦是什么?我将毫不犹豫地回答:是一个好医生。我想成为一名医生的原因是,我想要尽可能的挽救人们的生命。当我年轻的时候,我有一个可怕的车祸。多亏了医生,他们把我带回生活。从那时起,成为一个好医生一直是我的灵感。我将努力学习,以确保在未来我的梦想成真。

中国梦是由每一个普通人的梦想。我们应该尽力使我们的梦想成真。

Junwu past.then light clouds, in the branch of the season, we should have the motherland 70 birthday with you, can with zhuguoqing, i feel very happy. here, i want to motherland proud mother said: i love you, china!

ah! huanghe river, wall, you feed the onsweep of what a splendid ethnic! five thousand years of history, the chinese civilization, etc to breathtaking. oh, the motherland, the river is flowing through a long run you elegant long long mountain is hale backbone. you have mountains of treasure, you have beautiful varied landscape, you are resplendent and magnificent imperial palace, have you wan ting stretch of the great wall, the history, there are eight. you still have a lot of... in your vast territory, generation after generation descendants with our own hands created splendid oriental civilization.

however, we will not forget, the chinese nation also had the vicissitudes of life, after suffering, our motherland has much humiliation and insult. we shall never forget the bright garden, forget in every chinese head "asia" hat, forget the park gate "chinese and dog allowed" sign, forget the 300,000 compatriots in nanjing yangtze river is red with blood. the earth in the yellow river in cry moans, however, chinese people never crushed.

chinese children in humen was uncovered against aggression. the taiping heavenly kingdom, the flag of 1898, the yi ho tuan warrior jinglei broadsword, the revolution of 1911 gunshots, show the world that the chinese nation: chinese people dont apprehend,. the may 4th movement, the communist party of china was established, more like jinglei though the sky. from nanchang to jinggangshan, from yenan to xibaipo, "a little spark kindles a great fire. chinese people just with millet and rifle hit a splendid china, we this oriental giant finally again stand up!

金风送爽，天高云淡，在这个花果飘香的季节里，我们迎来了祖国七十岁的生日，能与大家同祝国庆，我感到非常快乐。在这里，我要自豪地对祖国母亲说：我爱你，中国!

啊!黄河长江，奔腾万里，你们哺育了一个多么辉煌的民族!五千年的辉煌历史，饮誉四海的华夏文明，足以让人叹为观止。哦，祖国，涓涓流贯的河川是你飘逸的长发，绵亘悠久长的山岳是你硬朗的脊梁。你有满山遍野的宝藏，你有秀丽多姿的山水，你有金碧辉煌的故宫，你有蜿蜓伸展的万里长城，纵有千古，横有八荒。你还有很多很多。。。。。。在你辽阔的土地上，一代又一代的炎黄子孙用自己的双手创造了灿烂的东方文明。

但是，我们不会忘记，中华民族也曾几经沧桑、几经痛苦，我们的祖国母亲也曾倍受欺凌与污辱。我们忘不了园明园的火光，忘不了扣在每个中国人头上的“东亚病夫”的帽子，忘不了公园门口“华人与狗不得入内”的牌子，忘不了南京三十万同胞的鲜血染红了长江。大地在呻吟，黄河在哭泣，然而中国人民永远也不会被压垮。

Many years ago, when China was poor and lagged much behind the world, a lot

of men went to California to seek for gold in the hope that they could be rich

when they returned to hometown. American dream once influenced the world and it

attracted people to realize their dreams. But today, the future is in China.

Many young people come to China to find their dreams.

Chinese economy developed very fast in the last decades, the market is full

of vitality and booming. More and more students choose to study abroad, but most

of them decide to return China to start their business, which is very different

with ten years ago. At that time, finding jobs in foreign countries was their

target. Whats more, China attracts foreigners to come and seek for cooperation,

because they know clearly that China can provide the chance they need.

Mandarin is learned by people from all around the world. The newest report

shows that more than 100 million people learn Chinese, which is the worlds

second language, and only ranks behind English. Chinese dream helps them to have

more chances.

In 1941, The Communist Party of China had decided that July 1st is the China Communist Party Day. As we all know, the communist party of China is Chinas vanguard of the working class as well as the vanguard of the Chinese nation. CPC is the core of leadership for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, on behalf of the development of Chinas advanced productive forces, represent the direction of Chinese advanced culture, represent the fundamental interests of most people in China. The partys highest ideal and ultimate goal is to realize communism.

We are all proud of the historic achievements of the Party and the people. The Chinese people firmly advocate the leadership of Chinese communist party. Under the China communist party leadership, the Chinese people and our country have made great changes. The CPC is loading implementation the Chinese nation is great revived historical mission. At this moment, our people live in a better life and a better society. As a student, I think we should study harder and make contribution to our country. Only in this way, we can make our Chinese dream come true.

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1941年，中国共产党决定把每年的7月1日定为中国共产党建党日。我们都知道，中国共产党是中国工人阶级的先锋队，同时是中国人民和中华民族的先锋队，是中国特色社会主义事业的领导核心，代表中国先进生产力的发展要求，代表中国先进文化的前进方向，代表中国最广大人民的根本利益。党的最高理想和最终目标是实现共产主义。

我们对建党以来所取得的伟大成就感到骄傲自豪。中国人民坚定不移的拥护中国共产党。在中国共产党的领导下，我国的人民和国家发生了巨大变化。中国共产党负担着实现中华民族的伟大复兴。在这一刻，我们的人民生活变得更好，社会也变得更好。作为一名学生，我认为我们应该更加的努力学习，为我们的国家做贡献。只有这样，我们才能实现我们的中国梦。

Chinese New year is a chinese traditional festival. We also call it the spring festival. It is on lunar january 1st.

On New year’s eve, all the people sit around the desk and have a big family dinner. There are some vegetables, some fish, some meat, some fruits and some drink like juice, coke, pepsi and some nice wine. Overall, this is a good and delicious dinner. After dinner, we always watch tv New year progammes. We have a wonderful evening on New year’s eve.

On the first day of the spring festival, most of people get up early and say “happy New year” to each other. for breakfast, people often eat dumplings and baozi. After breakfast, people often make many delicious foods, and children often play cards, computer games and fireworks. On the second and third day, we visit friends and relatives.

Everyone is busy on chinese New year, and everyone is happy, too.

My Chinese dream

As we all know, America has American dream. I believe all Chinese have Chinese dreams.

I have a dream that our country will be stronger and stronger. I have a dream that each Chinese will live a happy life and have the opportunity to achieve their dreams by working hard. I have a dream that the air will be fresher and the sky is bluer so that people can live comfortably and healthily. I have a dream that one day each Chinese, poor or rich, young or old, has equal right and opportunity to get education and health care.

To realize the Chinese dream, each Chinese needs to work hard. For students, we should love our country and keep it in mind. Besides, we must study hard in order to make our country stronger. More importantly, we should be a good person.

As we know , water is very important to man,we can’t live without water. The amount of water which is suitable to drink is less and less. But some people don’t care about it .They waste a lot of water in their daily life. Even worse, they pour dirty water in to rivers. They throw rubbish into rivers , too. Many rivers and lakes are seriously polluted. Something must be done to stop the pollution.Only in this way can we live happily. If we don’t save water, the last drop of water will be a tear-drop of us.

My eye is a China invincible wolf, is a never understood the fear of a lion. It has a long cultural history of 5000 years, has long stretches of the Yangtze River, the Great Wall, Pentium majestic majestic Terracotta Army......

66 years ago, our war of resistance against Japan ended, and in the near future there was war in Korea, and we went to help again. In the history of our China was a bully, but we again stand firm and inflexible. In the destruction of the Old Summer Palace in the British and French troops robbed us of countless treasures, also killed a maid, the eunuch. We sell it to us at the price of tens of millions of dollars at the auction. As the old China corruption we signed numerous Treaties: "Nanjing treaty", "Treaty of aigun", "Sino Russian Treaty of Beijing", "Sino Russian Treaty of Tianjin", "Beijing treaty", "Treaty of Tianjin" in china...... These unequal treaties made us suffer, lost billions of silver, millions of gold, and cut Hongkong, Heilongjiang, and the Xingan ridge.

It was good that China had a Mao Zedong, leading the army to drive the aggressors out of China.

A history book was opened, and a five thousand years old male lion was finally revived in the war, and he killed the enemy with the hatred and anger of the whole Chinese people. This is China in my eyes.

我眼中的中国是一只战无不胜的狼，是一只永远也不懂惧怕的雄狮。它有着五千年的悠久文化历史，有绵延不断的万里长城，有奔腾的长江、雄伟雄壮的兵马俑……

在66年前，我们的抗日战争才结束的，在不久后朝鲜出现了战争，我们又去帮忙。在历史的长河里我们中国被一次次的欺凌，但我们又一次次坚强不屈地挺了过来。在圆明园的毁灭中英法联军抢夺了我们无数的国宝，还杀死了个宫女、太监。还在拍卖会上以上千万元的价钱卖给我们。由于旧中国腐败我们签订了无数的条约有：《南京条约》、《瑷珲条约》、《中俄北京条约》、《中俄天津条约》、《北京条约》、《中美天津条约》……这些不平等条约让我们吃尽了苦头，赔损上几十亿的白银，几百万的黄金，割让香港岛、黑龙江、外兴安岭等。

还好中国出了个毛泽东，领导军队将侵略者赶出了中国。

翻开了历史书，沉睡了五千年的雄狮在战火中终于复苏了，他带着全中国人民的仇恨和愤怒杀向敌人。这就是我眼中的中国。

There are many TV programs on Chinese cuisines, but few are like A Bite of China. The latest seven-part high-definition documentary offers insights into the geographical, historical and cultural dimensions of what Chinese eat.

Filled with mouthwatering images of food ranging from haute cuisine to local delicacies, the docu captures the beautiful and refined process of food-making. The program is sure to attract both food buffs and ordinary audiences.

The bonus is, the show is not only about dishes. Every episode will highlight different people, who will tell stories about their adventures with food.

Almost every country in the world faced the population problem.China has the largest population, so the one-child policy was necessay. In America, there were 2 billion people 20 years ago, now there were 3 billion. Some day they will have the same amount people as we had in china, will they apply our population control policyAnyway we could be sure they will not critize our population policy at that time.

导语：中国是茶的故乡，中国人饮茶，据说始于神农时代，下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

It is 4,000 years since the Chinese began to grow and drink tea.

There’re many kinds of tea in China, of which Longjing Tea is famous all over the world.

Tea is usually drunk in tea sets. A tea set is made up of a tea pot and some teacups, which are both made of china.

Most Chinese are fond of drinking tea. Tea is served not only at tea house and restaurants but also at home. People also drink tea during breaks at offices or factories.

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自从中国人开始种植和喝茶以来已经4000年了。

有很多种类的茶在中国，其中龙井茶是世界著名的。

茶通常在茶具中喝醉。一套茶具由一个茶壶和茶杯，都是中国制造的。

大多数中国人喜欢喝茶。茶不仅是在茶馆和餐馆，而且在家里。人们在办公室或工厂休息时喝茶。

Chinese people usually have two word or three word names: the family name, a middle name and the last name.中国人的名字通常由两个字或三个字组成：姓，中间名和最后名。

Family names always come tirst.For example, my full name is Bai Junwei.Bai is my family name. Junwei is my given name.But some Chinese people dont have the middle name. For example, a man called Zhou Jian. Zhou is his family name,and Jian is his given name.姓要放在第一位。例如：我的全名叫白君伟。白是我的姓，君伟是我的名。但有些中国人没有中间的名，例如：一个人叫周健，周是他的姓，健是他的名。

People often use Mr. , Mrs. , or Miss before their family names, but never before.their given names.So you can say "Mr. Zhou", but you could never say "Mr.Jian".人们经常在他姓的后面使用先生、夫人、小姐，但此种说法从不在名字后面使用。所以你能说“周先生”，而不能说“健先生”。

Chinese names are different from English names.In England, the last name is the family name. The first and the middle name is tile given name.For example,there is a man called Jim Henry Brown. Brown is his family name. Jim Henry is his given name.Another difference between~ E.nglish and Chinese names is that in China, the younger peoples names shouldnt be the same as the elders in the family.For example, my grandpas name is Guo Dong, so i cant be called Guo Dong again.This shows that we respect the old people.中国人的名字与英国人的名字不同。在英国，最后一个字是姓，第一个和第二个是名字。例如：有个人叫Jim HenryBrown，Brown是他的姓，JimHenry是他的名字。英文和中文名字的另一个不同之处是：在中国，年轻人一般不能取和老人一样的名字。例如：我的外公叫郭冬，而我不能再叫郭冬，这是对老人的尊重。

In the family, people usually call me Weiwei for short. This is because it is shorter and easier than Bai Junwei, and it also they love me.In one word, Chinese names are quite different from English names.在家里，大人通常简称我伟伟，这是因为这比白君伟短并且容易叫，也显示出了他们对我的疼爱之情。总之，中国人的姓名表示法与英国人不同。

如今，看电视已经成了现代人生活中必不可少一环。它是宣传国家方针政策，提高人民群众文化生活水平的主要途径。有没有好的高质量的电视节目直接影响到国民的素质，这应该是没有异议的。

我觉得阶段的中国电视正处于一种探索阶段。可喜的是它的发展得到了人群众的广泛重视，我们也可以很清楚地看见一些电视人的努力。很多知名节目、王牌电视台都相继奠定了自己在同行中的地位，甚至一些民营电视台也在积极行动起来，真所谓该调动起来的力量都调动起来了。所谓探索阶段应该是探索一条有中国特色的电视道路。经验可以借鉴，但是不可以摹仿。自从去年年底的台湾偶像剧《流星花园》开始，中国几乎都掀起了“青春偶像剧”高潮，既然大家都喜欢看，商家又可以赚钱，这本来都是无可厚非的。而国内的编剧偏偏只看到了“青春偶像剧”的外衣。有人总结，青春偶像剧有六大秘诀，一是面孔，二是服饰，三是剧情，四是细节，五是观念，六是音乐。我觉得总结得非常全面，其中一、二、五、六是可以在撇开国情的基础上自由摹仿的。问题就出在剧情和细节上，我觉得我们的编剧只看到一些规律性的东西，认定哪种类型的最煽情，最受欢迎，就照本宣科，即使不合逻辑也无所谓。

由此引申开去，不只是所谓的青春偶像剧的编者，我觉得现在的编者都普遍存在三个问题。第一，缺乏对生活真正的体验，爱把自己关在家里，想当然地写，思维不开阔。第二，我觉得他们太多缺乏对美的真正体验，很多电视剧都缺乏美感。真正的美不是说真的要抛开国情，搞些豪华的房子什么的，当然这些都有一定衬托作用，但真正的美，准确来说是一种美感，一种发自内心的舒适感觉，是人本身所具有的一种共鸣，或者说是一种追求，一种意境，寄托着人的某一种生活理想。第三，就是缺乏创新精神，这点最重要。

不仅是现代剧，就连古装剧、卡通片也是这样，但现在最让人感到安慰的应该是《焦点访谈》、《实话实说》等节目的迅速崛起，它们能贴近群众生活，让群众不觉得是一个高高在上的节目，能说到一些深层次问题。当然，电视节目也不能都是这样严肃，不过，我们的娱乐节目也太多了，以上这些“娱糸”再发展下去就变成“愚弄”了。

以上是我——一个少年眼光看中国电视现状的一些看法，我忠心祝福中国电视——一路顺风!

The line chart depicts that the percentage of those aged over 60 increased moderately from 6% of the total population in 1990 to 15% in 2010 in China. It is predicted that the proportion will amount to 25% in 2020 and 30% in 2040.

Quite a few factors can account for this phenomenon, but the following might be the critical ones: for one thing, with the implementation of Chinas family planning policy and the improvement of peoples living standard, fewer and fewer people are willing to have more children. Therefore, the birth rate has dramatically dropped, which results in a low proportion of youngsters and a higher proportion of elders. For another, due to the fact that more hospitals are equipped with advanced medical instruments and more professional staffs, many incurable diseases now can be easily cured. As a result, the public can enjoy an increased life span, adding to the growing proportion of old people.

The aging of the population is also a result of social progress and economic development. However, this phenomenon will be likely to bring about some undesirable consequences in the future. Hence it is high time that we figured out some ways to face the up-coming challenges.

[人口老龄化英语作文

Today, more and more young people are crazy about western festivals. When western festivals come, they usually go to restaurants or shopping malls to have fun.

如今，越来越多的年轻人都对西方的节日着迷。当西方节日到来的时候，他们常常去餐厅或是商场娱乐。

Why do the young enjoy western festivals so much? Since they worship everything new, and they can’t resist the temptation. In their opinions, western festivals symbolize the fashion, while our Chinese traditional festivals are out of date. No wonder we always feel so boring during our traditional holidays. If we still turn a blind eye to our traditional festivals, our culture and civilization will disappear someday. Accordingly, it is high time for us to pay close attention to our Chinese festivals.

为什么年轻人这么喜爱西方节日呢?大抵是因为他们喜爱新鲜事物，抗拒不了诱惑。在他们看来，西方节日代表着时尚，而中国传统节日则太土了。这也难怪我们也觉得我们的传统节日太过无聊了。如果我们对传统节日漠然置之，那么某天我们的文化文明终会消失。因此，我们该多多关注我们中国自己的节日了。

As a Chinese, we have the obligation to protect our culture and custom. So I think we should celebrate our Chinese festivals by doing some traditional activities. As for western festivals, we needn’t to be too excited about them. We can just send our best wishes to our best friends during those festivals.

作为一名中国人，我们有责任保护自己的文化习俗。所以我认为应当在庆祝中国传统节日时候举办一些传统活动。而对于西方节日，我们不需要太过激动。在这些节日里我们应该只需简单的送上祝福就好。

China has already begun to face an aging population. It is reported that by 2003 in China, the population over 65 years of age the proportion of the total population will reach 7%, which will allow China into the United Nations in 1956 set the population aging countries in the world. By 2020, this proportion will be increased to 10.85%, while in 2050, it will reach 20.43%.

At present, the time being will not become the worlds largest country in the elderly population. However, it is the process of aging faster than any other developing country. In fact, China will become the worlds population, one of the fastest aging process, this change brought to China unfavorable factors, it needs China to take a unique way to take care of the aging population.

Respect for the elderly project

In recent years, Chinas economy developed rapidly, with the strength becomes stronger, the state since 1990, security expenses for the elderly are more than 100 billion yuan every year, but also the state was increasing year after year, while also encouraging social and personal fund-raising, donations of non-juvenile welfare facilities set up to address a number of elderly people a sense of security, old age care issues. However, for a big country like China, but also there are other ways to those who need help to provide assistance for lonely elderly people. Care in the community, a warmth of respect for the elderly project in China, the rise of many young people took part in respecting the obligation to engineering work, they not only raised in all directions to bring the material assistance to the elderly, but also for their daily needs and get a wide range of help, thus bringing the warmth and love dedicated to the lonely and helpless old man.

This shows that the "senior citizen project," is Chinas aging population on the eve of a large number of old age to solve the problem of looking into a way to have multiple meanings, which not only brought the Gospel to the lonely elderly, but also carry forward the socialist spiritual civilization.

带翻译：

中国已经开始面临人口老龄化。据报道，到2003年，中国65岁以上人口占总人口的比例将达到7%，这将使中国在1956年联合国世界上人口老龄化国家。到2020年，这一比例将上升到10.85%，而在2050年，它将达到20.43%。

目前，暂时不会成为世界上最大的国家的老年人口。然而，它是一个过程，老化速度比其他发展中国家。事实上，中国将成为世界上人口老龄化最快的一个过程，这一变化将对中国不利的因素，它需要中国采取一种独特的方式照顾老年人。

尊重老年人的项目

近年来，中国经济发展迅速，与实力强大了，国家自1990年以来，安全费用为老年人每年超过1000亿元，而且该州增加了年复一年，同时也鼓励社会和个人募捐，捐款福利设施的设置来解决很多老年人一种安全感，老年护理的问题。然而，对于像中国这样一个大国，但也有其他方面需要帮助的人提供帮助孤独的老人。社区内照顾，温暖的尊重老年人的项目在中国的崛起，许多年轻人参加工程工作尊重的义务，他们不仅提高了四面八方，将材料帮助老人，而且对他们的日常需要和得到广泛的帮助，因此带来的温暖和爱献给孤独和无助的老人。

这表明“老年人项目，“是中国老龄化的前夕，大量的老来解决这个问题的调查方法有多个含义，这不仅给孤独的老人带来了福音，同时也弘扬社会主义精神文明。

导语：春节是我们中国人最重要的节日。那么你是怎样过春节的呢?下面是一篇介绍中国人怎样过春节的作文，希望喜欢。

Spring festival is on the first day of the first lunar month. Chinese people most like the Spring Festival. During Spring Festival, Chinese people like having meals with their families, playing fireworks in the open air. My sisters and I played fireworks on that day. We had many fireworks. They were very beautiful. They were running into the sky and breaking into pieces. They looked like flowers in the sky. We were very happy and excited. After that, I made a wish. I hope that, we can have a happy and healthy life next year and everyone in my family can be happy.

I enjoy the festival very happy.

译文

春节是在第一个月的第一天。中国人最喜欢春节。在春节期间，中国人喜欢和自己的家人一起吃饭，一起放焰火在空旷的地方。在那些日子里，我和我姐姐一起放焰火。我们有很多的焰火。它们非常漂亮。它们升上天空并且使一些地方变得很亮。在天空中，它们看起来像是花。我们很高兴也很兴奋。在这之后，我许了一个愿，我希望，在来年，我们能够高高兴兴并且拥有健康的生活，还有每一个人在我们家庭里都可以开开心心。

我感到在这个节日里非常高兴。

The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is called the "Ten thousand Ii Great Wall" in Chinese. In fact, it s more than 6 000 kilometres long. It winds its way from west to east, across deserts, over mountains, through valleys till at last it reaches the sea. It is one of the wonders of the world.

The Great Wall has a history of over twenty centuries. The first part of it was built during the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Warring States Period, more walls were put up to defend the borders of the different kingdoms. It was during the Qin Dynasty that the kingdom of Qin united the dif ferent parts into one empire. To keep the enemy out of his empire, Emperor Qin Shi Huang had all the walls joined up. Thus, the Great Wall came into being.

The Great Wall is wide enough at the top for five horses or ten men to walk side by side. Along the wall are watchtowers, where soldiers used to keep watch. Fires were lit on the the towers as a warning when the enemy came.

It was very difficult to build such a wall in the ancient days without any modern machines. All the work was done by hand. Thousands of men died and were buried under the wall they built. The Great Wall was made not only of stone and earth, but of the flesh and blood of millions of men.

Today the Great Wall has become a place of interest not only to the Chinese but to people from all over the world. Many of them have come to know the famous Chinese saying: "He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man."

中国的长城

中国的万里长城被称为“万里长城”。事实上，它有6000多公里长。它蜿蜒地从西向东，穿过沙漠，越过高山，穿过山谷，直到最后到达大海。它是世界奇观之一。

长城有二十多个世纪的历史。它的第一部分是在春秋时期建造的。战国时期，有更多的城墙被用来保卫不同王国的边界。正是在秦朝，秦国把帝夫的发福部分统一为一个帝国。为了把敌人赶出他的帝国，秦始皇把所有的城墙连在一起。于是，长城诞生了。

长城的宽度足以让五匹马或十个人并排走。沿着墙的是瞭望塔，士兵们常常在那里守望。当敌人到来时，在塔上点燃了火作为警告。

在古代没有任何现代机器的情况下，很难建造这样一堵墙。所有的工作都是手工完成的。成千上万的人死了，被埋在他们建造的城墙下。长城不仅是由石头和泥土建成的，而且是几百万人的血肉所组成的。

今天，长城不仅对中国人，而且对来自世界各地的人都有兴趣。他们中的许多人都知道中国著名的谚语:“没有到达长城的人不是真正的人。”

30 年来，我国全面实行计划生育政策并取得了显著成效，但人口问题仍是当前一个严重的社会问题。我国的人口问题具有人口总数仍然偏多，人口素质偏低，人口结构不合理，人口分布不平衡等特点。

1、人口基数大，人口总数仍然偏多。新中国成立后，国家实行鼓励生育政策，就有了第一次婴儿潮。第二次出现在三年自然灾害后， 1962-1973年，这是人口出生最多的时期。第三次在1985年后，人口增长率明显回升。这三次婴儿潮让中国人口总数急剧增加。现在已经是13亿多人口，更有专家预测，2050年我国人口将达到16亿左右。由于人口数量多，人均资源数量相对越来越少，我国耕地、森林、草场等资源的绝对数量都居世界前列，但人均资源的数量很少。如我国人均耕地仅为0.09公顷，相当世界平均水平的1/4;我国森林覆盖率为13.94%，低于世界平均水平的30%;我国江河径流量人均仅有2450立方米，相当于世界人均水平的23.5%。由于人口数量增多，对自然环境的破坏也日趋严重。

2、人口素质偏低。人口素质是指人们在社会活动中表现出来的在思想道德、文化技术、个性心理与身体健康等方面的综合发展的水平。尽管大陆政府采取了一系列政策措施，使人口素质得到不断提高，但人口总体素质仍然较差。据2005 年1 %人口抽样调查资料显示，我国人均受教育年限只有7. 8 年，尚未达到初中毕业年限;15 岁以上人口中的成人文盲率达到11. 04 %。另一方面还有人口的身体素质不高，据2000 年人口普查统计，我国约有6000 多万残疾人，占全国总人口的4. 9 % 。

3、人口出生性别比偏高。20 世纪80 年代以前，我国出生性别比基本上属于正常范围，其出生性别比通常波动在102 -107 之间。但自80 年代以来，出生性别比明显升高，1982 年第三次人口普查的出生婴儿性别比为108. 5 ,比例偏高现象初显端倪，1990 年第四次人口普查时上升到111. 3 ，而2000 年第五次人口普查已达到116. 9 ,个别地方甚至达到135. 6 ,远远高于国际社会可以容忍的107 的最高警戒线。这和我国的传统思想有一定的关系。老一辈的人都讲究传宗接代，差不多都重男轻女。这一思想让男女出生人数严重不等，导致性别比偏高。

4、人口分布不平衡。从我国人口布局看，东部人口密，西部人口稀。据2000 年统计，西部面积占全国总面积的71. 54 % ,而人口仅占总人口的28. 13 %;东部面积占全国面积的28. 46 % , 而人口却占总人口的71. 87 %。东部地区多是平原，自然条件优越，农业发达。改革开放后，东部经济迅速发展。中国加入世贸组织后，对外贸易也迅速发展。地理条件的优越，国家的大力支持发展，让东部地区的经济发达起来。大量农村剩余劳动力涌入，导致人口越来越多。而西部地区地势高低起伏大，自然环境恶劣，经济发展缓慢，让许多人都不愿到西部地区去。人口分布的不平衡，使东部地区人均耕地面积日趋紧张，生产效率、经济效益难以提高，而西部地区许多耕地潜力及自然资源未能开发，浪费严重。 5,、人口严重老龄化，社会负担加重。人口老龄化是指65 岁及以上老年人口占总人口的比例。中国人口老龄化具有老年人口基数大、增长速度快、高龄化趋势明显、地区老龄化程度差异较大、历史欠账较多、人口老龄化与社会经济发展水平不相适应等特点。据2005年底全国百分之一人口抽样显示，中国65岁以上人口逾1亿人，占总人口数的7.7%，60岁以上的老年人口达到10.5%。由于扶养老年人与扶养少年人所需社会资源不同，负担也大不相同。各国研究结果都得到相类似的结论：抚养一位老人的平均费用与儿童的费用大体上为2∶1—3∶1。尽管中国儿童人口比例的下降抵消了老年人口比例的上升，在相当长的时期内被扶养人口总比例增加不多，但社会费用的支出仍将稳定地增长。医疗费用及退休金是社会对老年人主要的支出项目。 我国老年人医疗费用负担随年龄增加而迅速加重。

6、就业压力大。大量的人口让就业压力增大，农村大量剩余劳动力涌入城市，由于没文化，他们干的大多都是最苦最累最危险的活，而且工作时间长，工资也低，大多只能扶生活，还存在工资拖欠，日复一日，年复一年，农民工问题还是没解决。目前就我们当代大学生的就业形势也是非常严峻的，每年都有许多大学生面临失业。找工作难成了社会一大问题，这和人口总数多，人口素质偏低是分不开的。

人口问题在一定程度上制约了我国经济的发展，同时也产生了一些环境问题、教育问题、就业问题等，影响了我国的可持续发展。所以解决人口问题是非常必要的，这必定是一个漫长的过程，需要我们共同努力。

Waking up on New Year, everybody dresses up. First they extend greetings to their parents. Then each child will get money as a New Year gift, wrapped up in red paper. People in northern China will eat jiaozi, or dumplings, for breakfast, as they think "jiaozi" in sound means "bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new". Also, the shape of the dumpling is like gold ingot from ancient China. So people eat them and wish for money and treasure.

Southern Chinese eat niangao (New Year cake made of glutinous rice flour) on this occasion, because as a homophone, niangao means "higher and higher, one year after another." The first five days after the Spring Festival are a good time for relatives, friends, and classmates as well as colleagues to exchange greetings, gifts and chat leisurely.

China has 56 ethnic groups. Minorities celebrate their Spring Festival almost the same day as the Han people, and they have different customs.

[英语作文：中国春节习俗