China Census

China has further relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have a maximum of three children after a recent census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media Xinhua reported Monday.

China's population has grown at its slowest pace in decades, reaching 1.41 billion, census results showed on Tuesday.

China on Sunday started the world's biggest exercise of population count, conducted once in a decade, to document demographic changes in the most populous country.

Millions of census-takers began knocking on doors across China on Sunday for a once-a-decade head count of the world's largest population that for the first time will use mobile apps to help crunch the massive numbers.

China owns 108.15 million movable cultural artifacts, the country's first national survey conducted to better gauge and protect its ancient artefacts, has found.

China's mainland population reached 1.373 billion at the beginning of November, up 33.77 million since the last census was held in 2010, the statistics bureau said in estimates published on Wednesday.

An endangered tree species believed to be more than 1,300 years old has been found during a census of ancient tress in central China's Hunan Province, officials said today.

China's net purchases from Hong Kong totalled 131.19 tonnes in October, up from 110.914 tonnes in September, according to data e-mailed to Reuters by the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department.

China began tallying its population on Monday for the first time since 2000, an arduous task at best, likely to be made tougher by the need to count scores of millions of migrant workers in the nation's big cities.The government said it has sent more than six million census-takers out to survey 400 million households, including the shantytowns and ...

China has further relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have a maximum of three children after a recent census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media Xinhua reported Monday.

China's population has grown at its slowest pace in decades, reaching 1.41 billion, census results showed on Tuesday.

China on Sunday started the world's biggest exercise of population count, conducted once in a decade, to document demographic changes in the most populous country.

Millions of census-takers began knocking on doors across China on Sunday for a once-a-decade head count of the world's largest population that for the first time will use mobile apps to help crunch the massive numbers.

China owns 108.15 million movable cultural artifacts, the country's first national survey conducted to better gauge and protect its ancient artefacts, has found.

China's mainland population reached 1.373 billion at the beginning of November, up 33.77 million since the last census was held in 2010, the statistics bureau said in estimates published on Wednesday.

An endangered tree species believed to be more than 1,300 years old has been found during a census of ancient tress in central China's Hunan Province, officials said today.

China's net purchases from Hong Kong totalled 131.19 tonnes in October, up from 110.914 tonnes in September, according to data e-mailed to Reuters by the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department.

China began tallying its population on Monday for the first time since 2000, an arduous task at best, likely to be made tougher by the need to count scores of millions of migrant workers in the nation's big cities.The government said it has sent more than six million census-takers out to survey 400 million households, including the shantytowns and ...