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As part of the study, a sample of people born in rural China, who have since become urbanized and have a residence permit, an urban hukou, is profiled. They are called hukou converters and the large datasets used to analyze them cover a large area of China in 2002. Hukou converters make up 20% of China's urban population as estimated by the study.
China has an enormous population with a relatively small youth component, partially a result of China's one-child policy that was implemented from 1979 until 2015, which limited urban families to one offspring and rural families to two.
Urban families are generally smaller than their rural counterparts, and, in a reversal of traditional patterns, it is the highest level managers and cadres who have the smallest families. Late marriages and one or two children are characteristic of urban managerial and professional groups.
China will begin polling 1.4 million people on Wednesday in a survey on population changes, as authorities struggle to incentivise people to have more children amid a declining birth rate and the ...
China said it would raise minimum basic old age benefits for rural and non-working urban residents by 20 yuan and make an "appropriate increase" in the basic pension benefits for retirees, without ...
[1] It is an adaptation of methodology the OECD uses to determine functional urban areas in OECD member countries. [2] Official Chinese city boundaries cover both urban and rural areas and thus do not necessarily represent the true urban population. [3]
While in 2013 Chongqing had the largest population total of any special municipality, 28 million, only 4.5 million of the people were in the actual Chongqing urban area, with the remainder of the population in suburban and rural areas. [13]
As with earlier economic booms in Japan and South Korea, large populations moved from China's rural farms into cities, where having children is more expensive. ... China's population aged 60 and ...