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Major figures of the 2000 population census

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COMMUNIQUE ON MAJOR FIGURES OF THE 2000 POPULATION CENSUS

(No.2)

NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS PEOPLE'S REPUPLIC OF CHINA

April 2, 2001

Following are the results from the advance tabulation on the geographic distribution of

population from the fifth national population census of China:

Region Population (million) Beijing Municipality 13.82 Tianjin Municipality 10.01 Hebei Province 67.44 Shanxi Province 32.97 Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 23.76 Liaoning Province 42.38 Jilin Province 27.28 Heilongjiang Province 36.89 Shanghai Municipality 16.74 Jiangsu Province 74.38 Zhejiang Province 46.77 Anhui Province 59.86 Fujian Province

(excluding the population in Jinmen and Mazu and a few other islands) 34.71 Jiangxi Province 41.40 Shandong Province 90.79 Henan Province 92.56 Hubei Province 60.28 Hunan Province 64.40 Guangdong Province 86.42 Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region 44.89 Hainan Province 7.87 Chongqing Municipality 30.90 Sichuan Province 83.29 Guizhou Province 35.25 Yunnan Province 42.88 Tibet Autonomous Region 2.62 Shaanxi Province 36.05 Gansu Province 25.62 Qinghai Province 5.18 Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 5.62 Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region 19.25 Hongkong Special Administrative Region 6.78 Macao Special Administrative Region 0.44 Taiwan Province and Jinmen, Mazu and a few other islands of Fujian Province 22.28 Servicemen 2.50

Note:

The population (including immigrants, excluding emigrants) of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of the mainland of China were enumerated at the reference time of zero hour of November 1, 2000.

The difference between the total population on the mainland of China and the sum of population of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and servicemen were the population with their household registration unsettled.

Population of Hong Kong SAR was obtained from data on September 30, 2000, which was provided by Hong Kong SAR government.

Population of Macao SAR was obtained from data on September 30, 2000, which was provided by Macao SAR government.

Population of Taiwan Province, Jinmen, Mazu and a few other islands refers to population at the end of 2000, which was released by the Taiwan authority.