北京严控人口规模 2300万是"天花板"

Beijing again vowed that it would strongly rein in its population growth and set a ceiling of 23 million as the capital grapples with a shortage of water resources and a looming limit in carrying capacity.

因为首都水资源短缺，承载能力又已接近极限，北京政府近日再发将严格控制人口增长的声明，并设置了2300万人的上限。

The target was part of the city's next five-year development proposals approved by a plenary session of the Beijing municipal party committee on Wednesday. For the first time ever, "strict control of population growth" was incorporated into the resolutions of such a meeting.

本周三，北京市委全体会议通过了包含该目标的下一个五年发展计划。这也是有史以来第一次将“严格控制人口增长”纳入了会议决议。

Guo Jinlong, Beijing's Party chief, said that an oversized population remains the most prominent problem, and that excessively rapid growth is an important cause of the city's "urban ills." He said the targeted population of 23 million was calculated based on the capability of the city's water resources to support its residents.

北京市委书记郭金龙表示,过多的人口仍然是最突出的问题,而人口的过快增长则是导致“城市病”的重要原因。他说2300万人口的目标是基于提供给居民的城市水资源的能力而制定的。

The Beijing Municipal Committee also announced Wednesday that the capital plans to move most of its municipal departments to the suburban district of Tongzhou in 2017. Tongzhou was designated as the site of a new administrative center for the municipal government to help relieve the current heavy pressure on public services in downtown Beijing, where the central government is located.

北京市委员会周三还宣布,计划2017年将其大部分的市政部门搬到郊区通州。将通州定为新的市政府行政中心，可以帮助缓解当前北京市区，也是中央政府所在地公共服务方面的巨大压力。

The relocation is also part of the integration plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cluster, which aims to ease congestion in the capital and achieve more balanced development in the region.

重新安置也是京津冀城市群一体化计划的一部分,旨在缓解首都交通拥堵，并实现更加平衡的发展。

In 2005, the State Council, or China's cabinet, set the goal of having a total of 18 million people for Beijing in 2020. But the city's population has already surged to 21.54 million.

2005年,中国政府及国务院设定的目标是2020年北京人口达到1800万。但是北京的人口数量现如今已经飙升至2154万人。