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.
Zhang Juliang celebrated the Double Ninth Festival, a traditional Chinese holiday for the elderly, on Oct 15 with more than 20 other senior citizens at the Leling daycare center in Jiangning community of Shanghai's Jing'an District.
Starting Monday, millions of census takers will fan out across China, visiting 400 million households to get an accurate count of the population over a 10-day period.Special: China's Sixth Population Census Privacy issue confronts census takers
Growing wealth and privacy concerns can often result in census takers being treated with suspicion more than cooperation. When census taker Wang Xinwei knocks on the door many Chinese, rather than foreigners, are reluctant to even speak to her.
Jiang Jie and Wang Lin, enumerators in charge of some 200 households of the Dongdaqiao community, finished their first interview within 10 minutes at about 3:30 pm on August 23, 2010, as the preliminary phase of the nationwide population census that was launched on Aug 15.
When census taker Wang Xinwei knocks on doors as part of her job, many Chinese, rather than foreigners, will refuse to even speak to her.
The capital is urging parents who have broken family planning policies to register their extra births before Nov 1.
As the nation sees a boom in bachelors, a shortage of Chinese females sparks fears for their future. He Na reports in Beijing.
A survey of Beijing's population began on Sunday, as the nation launched the preliminary phase of its sixth population census.
Beijing municipal people's congress revealed this week that the Chinese capital now has 19.72 million inhabitants, growing by over 3% in the past 2 years.
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Authorities in Guangdong, one of China’s most populous provinces, will stick to the family planning policy and promote free premarital and pregnancy checkups to curb high birth defect rates, a senior official said.
A special questionnaire has been designed for China's 6th national population census starting Nov 1, which for the first time will count the number of residents from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreigners who are living and working in China.