A major reconsideration of the one-child policy is especially important, given the need to relieve pressures arising from the inevitable decline in China’s working-age population. Reform of the hukou (residency permit) system to allow citizens to transfer their welfare benefits from one city to another is vital for an increasingly flexible labor force that now includes almost 200 million migrant workers.
三中全会提出的另外一些措施意在改变中国家庭的行为范式。一孩政策的重大调整尤其重要，因为中国工作适龄人口的下降已成定局，需要缓解因此造成的压力。户口制度的改革——允许公民在不同城市之间转移社会福利账户——对于包括近2亿农民工在内的日益灵活的劳动力来说至关重要。