After the Financial Times revealed that China’s population will take a negative turn, China’s National Bureau of Statistics today declared that “China’s population will continue to grow in 2020. The commentary said that in China, where population is a sensitive issue and involves changes in family planning policies, pensions and other social welfare policies, the credibility of the decennial census data is being overshadowed by the dramatic delays in its release and the various news stories that have been circulating.
The Financial Times yesterday quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the seventh Chinese census, the results of which have not yet been released, will report a total population of less than 1.4 billion. Since Chinese officials have previously said the population will exceed 1.4 billion by the end of 2019, the news is tantamount to saying that China’s population is entering negative growth. According to a Central News Agency report today, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said today that “in 2020, China’s population will continue to grow”. However, China was scheduled to release the results of the decennial census at the beginning of the month, but no official release date has been given so far.
According to the official website of China’s National Bureau of Statistics, released this afternoon, “It is understood that in 2020, China’s population continues to grow, and specific information will be released in the bulletin of the seventh national census.”
The report said officials originally intended to release the results of the seventh national census in early April; by the middle of this month, NBS spokesman Liu Aihua said the census results would “strive to be released early.” Chinese media First Financial today quoted informed sources as saying that the data is expected to be released in early-mid May instead. However, the newspaper quoted a staff member of China’s National Bureau of Statistics as saying, “There is no particularly specific timetable yet because some of the data are relatively large and are still in the process of being processed.”
According to the Central News Agency, population is a sensitive issue in China, and it involves changes in family planning policies, pensions and other social welfare policies. the credibility of the 10-yearly census data itself is threatened to be overshadowed by the dramatic and constant delays in its release and the various news that have been making the rounds.
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