The United Nations report shows that the Chinese population will be surpassed by India this year. In response, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded that the population must look at the total and the quality.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a regular press conference on Wednesday (April 19). When asked about the related issues that India is expected to surpass China to become the world's largest country in the world this year, spokesman Wang Wenbin said, "The demographic dividend of a country depends not only on the total amount and the quality; it depends on the population and the talents.
Wang Wenbin said that China has more than 1.4 billion people, of which the working age population is nearly 900 million, the average education period of the labor age population is 10.9 years, and the number of new labor education has reached 14 years.At the same time, China has implemented a national strategy of actively responding to the aging of the population, promoting the three -child fertility policy and supporting support measures, and actively cope with the development of the population.
Wang Wenbin said that as the Chinese State Council Prime Minister Li Qiang pointed out, China's demographic dividend has not disappeared, talent dividends are formed, and the development momentum is still strong.
According to the Wall Street Journal report on April 17, the United Nations report shows that India's population is expected to surpass China at some time this year.According to predictions, India's population will reach 1.429 billion by the end of this year, while the Chinese population will be 1.426 billion, ranking second.
China has been the country with the most population in the world for a long time, but in recent years, the trend has changed.Official statistics show that in 2022, China's population decreased by 850,000 compared with 2021, which was 1.4117.5 billion people, the first time in more than 60 years.
