All the more so for us, as we are a small country with low birth rates.
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而我们生活的世界是否能通过自 然 之道达到小国寡民的理想世界, 这正是老子生命哲学的基本课题。
However, by the ministries of " the natural way, " our living world could attain to an ideal world of "small country and few people. " This is the fundamental issue of Lao zi's philosophy of life.
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此外,“小国寡民”是老子设想的理想世界、桃花源,这与我们现在所说的“小的是美好”的思想不谋而合。
Besides, "small territory and population" is the ideal world imagined by Laotse which happens have the same view with the thought we are talking now "small thing is the niceness".