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The Chinese government aimed to reduce population growth by promoting guidelines for birth control and family planning. The government believed that having fewer children and spacing births more adequately would allow families to allocate more resources per child, resulting in better health and education outcomes for children.
Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895–1937 is a 2000 non-fiction book by Kristin Eileen Stapleton (Chinese name: 司昆仑 Sī Kūnlún), ...
Among them, the total permanent population of Chongqing, Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu is above 20 million. [7] Shanghai is China's most populous urban area, [8] [9] while Chongqing is its largest city proper, the only city in China with the largest permanent population of over 30 million. [10]
Chengdu [a] is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a population of 20,937,757 at the 2020 census, [5] it is the fourth most populous city in China, and it is the only city with a population of over 20 million apart from direct-administered municipalities. It is traditionally the hub of Western China. Chengdu is in central ...
China's economy is slowing and its population is aging. Will that prompt its leaders to take risks now, before their power declines?
The most significant facts of early and mid-Qing social history was growth in population, population density, and mobility. The population in 1700, according to widely accepted estimates, was roughly 150 million, about what it had been under the late Ming a century before, then doubled over the next century, and reached a height of 450 million ...
A study in miniature of Chinese population. Population Studies 5, 2 (Nov. 1951): 91–103. (Reprinted in Social Demography, edited by Thomas R. Ford and Gordon F. De Jong. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970, 642–656.) Cultural values, social structure and population growth. Population Bulletin of the United Nations 5 (July 1956): 5–12.
According to Malthusian theory, population growth takes place in a geometrical fashion. When population growth takes place, food supply decreases and this is always an indicator of more people depending on the same amount of resources. It basically means that food supply will be diminishing due to strains put on the available resources.