When observed individually, some provinces could stand an international comparison. Jiangxi province, for example, a medium-sized Chinese province, had a population size comparable to Argentina or Spain in 2023. That year, the GDP of Zhejiang, an eastern coastal province, even exceeded the economic...
On January 1, 2022, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement entered into force, creating the world’s largest free trade zone in terms of population size and trade volume. The RCEP and the BRI overlap and complement each other in terms of participating countries and regio...
If China’s provinces were countries(click for details) China’s great migration- China’s Henan province has a population of about 100 million -- larger than that of most countries. In China’s administrative system, a province is at the highest level of subnational government, followed by c...
China's urban population set to surpass rural figure China's urban population is to surpass its rural population for the first time by 2015, with the number of Chinese living in towns and cities set to top 700 million, Xinhua news agency reported. Li Bin, director of the National Populatio...
With 1.4 billion people living in the country's 33 distinct regions, each of China's provinces has a population that is equal to that of a major country.
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At the end of the year, China's population on the mainland was 1,411.75 million, a decrease of 850,000 from the end of the last year. The figure does not include Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan residents and foreigners who live in the mainland's 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and mun...
China introduced the third-child policy in May 2021 and took a number of stimulus measures to boost population growth. A number of cities or provinces across the country have rolled out incentive policies such as issuing subsidies to families with a second or third child....
Despite China’s massive population, rising standards of living and decades under its ‘One Child‘ policy have caused its fertility rate to plummet. China’s ‘One Child’ policy and its preference for male heirs has also resulted in roughly 34 million more men than women in China today. Th...
We took proactive steps to address population aging and promoted development of both elderly care programs and elderly care services. We encouraged the development of community and at-home elderly care services by offering policy support in terms of tax, rent, and charges for water, electricity, ...