参考答案:The National Bureau of Statistics announced that the number of working-age Chinese shrank last year by a total of 3.45m. This is a big turning point. The mobilisation of Chinese labour over the past 35 years has shaken the world. Never before has the global economy benefited from such big additions of human exertion. Now the additions seem to be over. How much surplus labor remains in China’s rural hinterland is a matter of great debate. Some economists think Chinese agriculture can still spare millions of workers. Others argue that China exhausted its surplus workers as early as 2004.
