Jan. 17 China’s Population Shrinks Again Shrinking population:The number of people in Chinadeclinedfor the third straight year in 2024. The National Bureau of Statistics announced Friday that the country’s population shrank by just shy of 1% to 1.408 billion. The figure shows that the country...
BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's growing skilled population will help offset the impacts of an aging society and shrinking workforce, according to some experts. Official data showed that the total number of births fell by about 630,000 year on year in 2017 while percentage of the popul...
BEIJING, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- By 2020, the size of resident population in Beijing should be under 23 million and kept at this level thereafter, according to a city planning document for Beijing issued by China's central authorities. Moreover, construction land in the city should be reduced...
Population aging in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is mainly due to rapid fertility decline after 1970, a third of which was due to government policy, and the balance to social and economic development. Relaxing fertility policies now would probably not have a large effect on fertility...
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, ...
needsBUREAUEDUCATIONALChina's total population at the end of 2023 decreased by 2.08 million compared to the previous year,according to the National Bureau of Statistics.In 2022,China's population declined for the first time in 60 years,shrinking by 850,000.China Weekly...
As a rule, China's central planners do not say much about love. But look closely at recent plans from some reform-minded provinces—notably schemes that try to address a shrinking population—an…
Beijing: China Statistics Press. (in Chinese). Google Scholar [52] Nefs M, Alves S, Zasada I et al., 2013. Shrinking cities as retirement cities? Opportunities for shrinking cities as green living environments for older individuals. Environment and planning A:Economy and Space, 45(6): ...
The total population on the mainland reached 1.40005 billion at the end of last year, increasing 4.67 million from one year earlier, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed. The figure did not count the population in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions as we...
BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- The number of workers in China decreased in seven consecutive years but the shrinking working-age population should not cause concern, the China Daily reported Wednesday. Both the absolute number and the relative proportion of the working-age population - those 16 ...