前言为控制人口的增长,七十年代在我国大力提倡并鼓励青年男女实行晚婚,除少数民族地区外,提倡将女性的婚龄延迟到23至2s岁,男性推迟到25至27岁。但实际上有的地区宣传鼓励晚婚早在1970年前就已开始。有学者根据1974年北京的一次调查指出,城区小于2S岁结婚的妇女仅占已婚妇女的0.6%,农村结婚年龄小于23岁的妇女只有0.2%。这说明提倡晚婚已取得了明显的效果。但在我国有关结婚年龄与生育率之间关系的研究报告甚少, Foreword In order to control the growth of population, in the 1970s we strongly advocated and encouraged young men and women to implement late marriage. In addition to ethnic minority areas, we advocate that the marriage age of women be delayed to 23 to 2s, and that men should be postponed to 25 to 27. However, in fact, some local propaganda encourage late marriage to begin as early as 1970. According to a survey conducted by a scholar in Beijing in 1974, some women who were married in urban areas less than 2 years old accounted for only 0.6% of married women, while only 0.2% of women in rural areas had married women under 23 years of age. This shows that the promotion of late marriage has achieved significant results. However, there are few research reports on the relationship between marriage age and fertility rate in China.