(Xinjiang White Paper) Xinjiang's population development conforms to the universal law of world population development
China News Service, Beijing, September 26. The State Council Information Office of China issued a white paper on "Population Development in Xinjiang" on the 26th.
The white paper pointed out that Xinjiang's population development is in line with the universal law of world population development.
According to the white paper, Xinjiang’s population development, along with the process of industrialization, urbanization, and modernization, has experienced high births, high deaths, low growth to high births, low deaths, and high growth, and is shifting to low births, low deaths, and low growth. It is the result of multiple factors including economic and social development, implementation of policies and regulations, and changes in the concept of marriage and childbirth. It conforms to the universal law of world population development.
From the perspective of economic and social development, since the founding of New China, Xinjiang has made great achievements in various undertakings.
The GDP has increased from 792 million yuan (RMB, the same below) in 1952 to 1,379.758 billion yuan in 2020.
The per capita GDP has increased from 166 yuan in 1952 to 53,591 yuan in 2020.
After more than 70 years of development, Xinjiang has formed a complete education system from preschool education to higher education.
Before the founding of New China, Xinjiang's medical and health services were extremely backward, with only 54 medical institutions and 696 hospital beds.
By 2019, Xinjiang's medical and health system has been fully formed, with medical institutions spread across both urban and rural areas, with a total of 18,376 medical institutions and 186,426 beds.
The average life expectancy increased from less than 30 years in 1949 to 74.7 years in 2019.
From the perspective of the implementation of policies and regulations, China’s implementation of family planning has gone through the process of first inland and then frontiers, cities and then rural areas, and Han nationalities before ethnic minorities. The implementation of relatively loose policies for ethnic minorities is different from that of Han nationalities.
Xinjiang formulates family planning-related policies in accordance with national laws and regulations and combined with local conditions.
From the perspective of the concept of marriage and childbirth, in recent years, Xinjiang’s concepts of marriage, childbirth, and family have been actively changed. Women’s economic, social and family status has been continuously improved.
The relevant data in the white paper shows that before the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Xinjiang had low productivity and backward production methods. People of all ethnic groups were oppressed by foreign aggressors, feudal exploiting classes, and religiously privileged classes. Their lives were extremely difficult, their lives were insecure, and their population grew. slow.
According to research, from 60 BC to the mid-18th century AD, the population of Xinjiang has never exceeded 1 million for more than 1800 years.
When Xinjiang was peacefully liberated in 1949, its population reached 4.3334 million.
After the founding of New China, the population development of Xinjiang entered a new historical period.
Before China implemented reform and opening up in 1978, the total population of Xinjiang had increased to 12.3301 million.
Since the 21st century, Xinjiang's population has entered a stage of steady growth.
The preliminary summary data of the seventh national census in 2020 shows that the population of Xinjiang has reached 25,852,300, an increase of 4,036,500 over 2010, with an average annual growth rate of 1.71%.
During the period from 2000 to 2020, Xinjiang’s population growth has slowed down, but the average annual growth rate is still 1.15 percentage points higher than the national average.
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