China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released the latest census data today, saying that China’s total population exceeded 1.4 billion, up 5.38% from the last census. However, experts and netizens questioned the authenticity of the data.
As China’s National Bureau of Statistics said in mid-March that it expected to release the results of the population data in early April, the results were released a full month late, and only today, the official statement was that “more preparations are needed”, but experts believe that the speed and scale of China’s population crisis is faster and larger than people think, and could cause That’s why the announcement was delayed.
The Financial Times cites sources familiar with the matter as saying that China’s census was completed in December 2020, but that the data is “very sensitive” due to the decline in the total population, and that a consensus on the data needs to be reached among government departments before it is released. The so-called “sensitive” data include new pneumonia deaths in 2020, and food crises caused by plague, locusts, floods and droughts, which may directly or indirectly affect population numbers.
Some netizens pointed out the CCP’s “official culture,” saying, “The data is too real and will be hard to read in many places, and the final data must be trimmed. “. The result of the consultation among government departments is that the population has grown again,” the expert said ironically.
Experts cite a previous WeChat post by the CCP Central Committee suggesting full liberalization and encouragement of childbirth as an acknowledgement of the “reversal” of the demographic situation and the faster-than-imagined population decline, and the CCP authorities’ concealment of the actual number of infections and deaths since the outbreak of the new coronavirus in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, as one of the reasons for the dramatic population decline. The Chinese authorities’ concealment of the actual number of infections and deaths since the outbreak of the new coronavirus in Wuhan, China in late September has also been questioned as a cause of the dramatic population decline. No one seems to believe this story, even though the official figures continue to show population growth.
Scholars at the Institute for Information and Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C., a U.S. think tank, analyze that there may be a discrepancy between China’s actual population figures and the government’s published figures, and that China’s claimed population of more than 1.4 billion is “probably just over 1.2 billion now.
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