2017考研英語熱點新聞翻譯:中國的城鎮化水平已達到56.1%

     2017考研英語熱點新聞翻譯:中國的城鎮化水平已達到56.1%

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Govt report: China's urbanization level reached 56.1%

政府報告：中國的城鎮化水平已達到56.1%

China's urbanization level has reached 56.1 percent, that's according to the first official urbanization report book compiled by the National Development and Reform Commission. The country also plans for more small and medium sized cities along with a human-centered urbanization path.

根據國家發展和改革委員會編寫的第一本官方的城鎮化報告（2015），中國的城鎮化水平已達到56.1%，中國計劃沿著以人為核心的城鎮化道路發展更多中小城市。

China has 653 cities now, compared to 193 in 1978. The top economic planning body says that number could be increased.

1978年中國只有193個城市，現在中國有653個城市。中國最高經濟規劃機構表示城市數量還將增加。

"Even Japan has over 1000 cities. We have over 200 counties and towns that can be converted tomedium and small cities. We'll speed up setting the standards to support that this year," Xu Lin, director of Planning Dept., NDRC, said.

“甚至日本都有1000多個城市，我們有200多個縣城和小城鎮可以轉化為中小城市，我們今年將加快出臺設市標準支持這項事業。”發改委規劃司司長徐林表示。

China's fast urbanization has left many problems. One of them...many new buildings in disuse, leading to what's called "ghost cities".

中國的快速城鎮化產生了許多問題。其中一個問題是，許多新建筑被閑置，導致“鬼城”現象。

Since 2014, the central government began to advance a new path that's human-centered and environmentally friendly.

從2014年開始，中央政府開始加快推進以人為核心，環境友好型的新型城鎮化道路。

China aims to make 60 percent of its population live in cities by 2020.

中國規劃到2020年使常住人口城鎮化率達到 60%。

The country counted 277 million migrant rural workers last year. Without a household registration permit, called a Hukou, in the city they work in, they are denied access to many social benefits.

去年國家把2.77億農民工計算在內，由于沒有他們工作所在城市的戶口登記許可，他們無法享受許多社會福利。

And many have left their ageing parents and children in their rural home.
Speeding up a reform on that, is topping this year's priorities.

許多人把年長的父母和孩子留在農村的家里，加速改革這一問題是今年的一個重點工作。

"We're improving migrant rural workers' citizenship. We'll enable them to take their family to cities,and get access to the same medical care and education as locals," Xu said.

徐林表示，我們正在推動農民工的市民化，使他們能夠把他們的家人帶到城市中，并能和當地人一樣享受同樣的醫療和教育。

The National Development and Reform Commission says from this year on, a book will be published every year, to tell the pubic about all the progress and problems in the country's urbanization process.

國家發展和改革委員會表示從今年開始，每年都會出版一本報告，來告訴公眾國家城鎮化進程中取得的進步和遇到的問題。