China carries out a national population census every 10 years. According to the National Population and Family Planning Commission, the population on the Chinese mainland will reach 1.39 billion by the end of 2015. |
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Opinion: People-first census
Feature: Census-taker tells her story
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??Top Chinese leaders submit census information
Chinese President Hu Jintao and eight other top leaders took part in the country's once-in-a-decade census Tuesday at Zhongnanhai, the central leadership compound in Beijing, or entrusted their families to submit the required information. [Full Story]
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Even with a tremendous amount of manpower and funds, the upcoming nationwide census in China will still face challenges getting real population data, demographics officials and experts said.The increasing concern for privacy protection, as well as a rapidly growing migrant population in cities, will make it difficult to gather accurate information about the population [Full story]
? Fears over privacy confront census takers
• Census-takers feel pressure
? Chinese bristling at census
??Door-to-door census confronted by privacy awareness
Do You Know? China's population?totals?1.3 billion by January 6, 2005. The average life-span of Chinese people is 71 years old by the end of 2000. According to the fifth census in 2000, China has 56 ethnic groups, of which the Hans have the largest population, accounting for 91.59 percent of the total. The other 55 ethnic minority groups have a total population of 104.49 million, accounting for 8.41 percent. The family planning policy has long been wrongly perceived as one-child policy. Its main contents are: Advocating delayed marriage and delayed child bearing, fewer and healthier births; and advocating one child for one couple. Some rural couples and ethnic minorities are allowed to give birth to a second child.
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