China News Service, Beijing, May 11 (Reporter Li Jinlei) The results of China's 7th National Census, which has attracted much attention, will be officially released on the 11th.

　　The State Council Information Office is scheduled to hold a press conference at 10 am on May 11, 2021. Ning Jizhe, deputy leader of the State Council’s Seventh National Census Leading Group and Director of the National Bureau of Statistics, and the State Council’s Seventh National Census Leading Group Office Director, Deputy Director of the National Bureau of Statistics Li Xiaochao, Deputy Director of the Office of the Seventh National Census Leading Group of the State Council, Chief Statistician of the National Bureau of Statistics Zeng Yuping, Deputy Director of the Office of the Seventh National Census Leading Group of the State Council, Population and Employment of the National Bureau of Statistics Zhang Yi, director of the Statistics Department, introduced the main data results of the seventh national census and answered reporters' questions.

From the website of the State Council Information Office.

　　The main data result of the seventh national census can be described as "being out after a thousand calls."

　　Prior to this, Liu Aihua, spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics, revealed at a press conference of the State Information Office on March 15 that it was initially planned to hold a press conference in early April to announce the results of the census.

At the press conference, the main results of the seventh national census will be announced, including data on various aspects such as age structure, gender structure, and education level.

　　However, the aforementioned press conference was not held in early April.

Liu Aihua explained at the press conference on the operation of the national economy in the first quarter on April 16 that in order to provide you with more information, the

seventh national census plans to increase the release of information on the basis of the information released by the sixth national census. More detailed information, while greatly increasing the number of census bulletins.

For this reason, the preparatory work before the issuance of the census has also increased accordingly.

The next step will be to speed up the progress of the work, and strive to announce the final results of the census to the society as soon as possible.

　　Our country's census is conducted every 10 years.

The seventh national census will be registered from November 1 to December 10, 2020.

　　The results of the national census have attracted great attention and have also triggered some speculations from the outside world. Some foreign media said that "China is about to report its first population decline since 1949."

However, on April 29, the National Bureau of Statistics announced that it is understood

that China's population will continue to grow in 2020,

and specific data will be released in the seventh national census bulletin.

Crowd in the train station.

Photo by Zhang Yuhuan

　　What do the main data of the national census generally include?

According to the main data bulletin of the sixth national census in 2010 (No. 1), including total population, population growth, household population, gender composition, age composition, ethnic composition, population with various education levels, urban and rural population, population Flow, registration errors, etc.

　　In recent years, my country’s population development has undergone some significant changes. It is not only facing the pressure of a large population, but also facing the challenges brought about by the transformation of the population structure.

At the end of last year, Minister of Civil Affairs Li Jiheng wrote an article that my country's population of the right age has low willingness to give birth, the total fertility rate has fallen below the warning line, and population development has entered a critical turning period.

　　According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics in 2019, the total population of mainland China at the end of 2019 was 1.4005 million.

The population of 60 years old and above is 253.88 million.

From the perspective of gender structure, the male population is 715.27 million and the female population is 6.84.7 million. The sex ratio of the total population is 104.45 (100 for females).

That is, there are 30.49 million more men than women.

　　What has changed in China's population in the past 10 years?

Is the total population above 1.4 billion people?

What is the level of fertility?

What is the population growth situation after the implementation of the "comprehensive two-child" policy?

Has the gender structure of men and women improved?

The outside world is looking forward to the answer.

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