In China, a country of superstitious people, there is a firm belief that if you are born in the year of the dragon, you have a much better chance of being intelligent, strong, eloquent and rich. The Chinese Government relies on statistics that say that there is always a baby boom every time, in a 12-year cycle, the most auspicious sign of the calendar hits.
In 2023, the population fell for the second consecutive year : the Chinese census counts 1,409 million people, two million less than the previous year.