亚洲议员人口和发展会议结束已近一个月了。这次会议所提出的问题、反映的情况和介绍的经验,有助于增进人们对人口与发展问题的认识,很值得重视。问题的由来人口与发展问题是个简便提法。如果讲得科学些,它的静态涵义是指人口数量与资源总量的关系问题,其动态涵义是指人口发展与社会经济发展的相互关系,或人口发展与经济发展的结合问题。五十年代后,人口与发展问题越来越受到世界各国的重视。其原因是:五十年代以来出现的全球性的迫切问题大多跟人口问题有关。例如,粮食问题,或者象某些西方人士所渲染的粮食危机,举世公认是个迫切需要解决的全球性问题。造成这个问题的原因是 Nearly a month has passed since the Asian Parliamentarians Conference on Population and Development ended. The issues raised in this meeting, the situations reflected in them and the experiences we have introduced help to promote people’s understanding of population and development issues and are worthy of attention. The Origin of the Problem Population and development issues are easy references. If we talk about science, its static meaning refers to the relationship between the population and the total amount of resources. Its dynamic meaning refers to the interdependence between population development and social economic development, or the combination of population development and economic development. After the 1950s, the issue of population and development has drawn more and more attention from all the countries in the world. The reason for this is that most of the pressing global problems that have emerged since the 1950s are related to population issues. For example, the food problem, or the food crisis that some Western people have rendered, is universally acknowledged as a global problem that urgently needs to be resolved. The reason for this problem is