年上海市常住人口15年來首現負增長

In 2015, the number of migrant residents living in Shanghai dropped for the first time in the past 15 years, Shanghai Television reported Monday.

根據週一上海電視臺的報道，2015年，上海市外來常住人口出現15年來的首次負增長。

It was also the first time Shanghai witnessed a decrease in its permanent population since China adopted the policy of reform and opening-up in 1978, Guo Feng, a research fellow at Shanghai Finance Institute, was quoted by news site as saying on Tuesday.

上海金融學院的研究人員郭峯引用了週二華爾街見聞上的信息並表示，這也是自1978年中國改革開放以來，上海第一次見證了常住人口的減少 。

By the end of 2015, Shanghai's population of migrant residents had decreased to 9.8 million, comprising 40.6 percent of the city's roughly 24 million permanent residents, according to statistics released by the Shanghai Municipal Statistics Bureau on Monday.

根據上海市統計局發佈的數據顯示，截止2015年年底，上海市外來常住人口數量減少至980萬人，佔該市大約2400萬常住人口總量的40.6%。

Upgrades to the country's industrial structure in which labor-intensive industries are being moved out of metropolitan areas contributed greatly to the demographic change, Peng Xizhe, dean of the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Shanghai-based Fudan University, told the Global Times on Tuesday.

上海復旦大學社會發展與公共政策學院院長彭希哲週二告訴環球時報，在產業結構升級的過程中，勞動密集型產業搬離都市圈，是導致這一人口變遷的最主要原因之一。

The promotion of urbanization in central and western China has also attracted many members of the labor force from coastal cities in East China to inland regions, where the cost of living is much lower, Peng explained.

彭希哲解釋稱，中部和西部城市化的推進，也吸引了東部沿海城市向內陸地區的大量勞動力前往花銷更低的內陸地區。

Experts also noted that the population control policies adopted in recent years have started to pay off.

專家還指出，最近幾年的人口控制政策的效果已經開始顯現出來。

"Shanghai has taken a series of tough measures to curb population growth since 2014, including renovating urban villages and regulating group renting," Zhou Haiwang, an expert with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times.

上海社會科學院的專家周海旺告訴環球時報：“上海自2014以來就採取了一系列強硬措施，包括改造城中村和規範羣租來控制人口增長。”