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China is the second most-populous country in the world and Asia with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, only surpassed by India. Historically, China has always been one of the nation-states with the most population. China has an enormous population with a relatively small youth component, partially a result of China's one-child policy that was ...
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 ] As of 2020, there were 113 Chinese cities with over 1 million people in urban areas.
This is a list of Chinese administrative divisions in order of their total resident populations. It includes all provinces, autonomous regions, direct-controlled municipalities and special administrative regions controlled by the Republic of China (1912–1949) or the People's Republic of China (1949–present).
It has now become a proxy for demographic and social segmentation in China, especially relevant to those college-educated seeking non-governmental employment. [6][7][8] It is the general consensus that four cities, namely Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, belong to the first tier, while tier II includes other major cities.
The population of mainland China was 1,411,778,724 [9] as of 1 November 2020. [10] In addition, Taiwan's population was 23,539,588 (determined by the ROC Ministry of the Interior independently of the PRC census), Hong Kong's population was 7,474,200 (provided by the Hong Kong SAR Government at the end of 2020) and Macau's population was 683,218 (provided by the Macau SAR Government at the end ...
The constitution of China provides for three levels of government. However in practice, there are five levels of local government; the provincial (province, autonomous region, municipality, and special administrative region), prefecture, county, township, and village. Since the 17th century, provincial boundaries in China have remained largely ...
China’s population declined last year for the second year in a row, officials said Wednesday, spurred by record-low births and a wave of Covid-19 deaths.
China,[h]officially the People's Republic of China(PRC),[i]is a country in East Asia. With a populationexceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous countryafter India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land.