China National Bureau of Statistics: Although the population is declining, the quality

The first negative growth of China's population last year. Officials of the National Bureau of Statistics of China said that although the population has declined, the population quality is increasing.

According to Surging News, Vice Director of the National Bureau of Statistics of China Shenglaiyun's Wednesday (October 18) said at the population situation at the press conference, the seventh national census and the seventh national census and the seventh national census andFrom the perspective of the sampling survey of population changes in the past two years, China's population structure has indeed undergone a lot of profound changes with economic and social development, including decline in birth rate, accelerated aging, and the total population of population is also changing.

Shenglaiyun pointed out that last year, the total population increased negatively last year, but the total population of China was still relatively large, especially the labor age population was nearly 900 million.He emphasized that the quality of the population is indeed improving.The latest data shows that the average education period of the labor age population has reached 10.93 years.In addition, China has 240 million people receiving higher education.Therefore, although the population has declined, the population quality has improved faster, providing a good resource guarantee for the high -quality development of China's economy.

Earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics of China issued an announcement on October 10 that it was decided to organize a sampling survey of population changes in 2023.

When asked about the relevant investigation, Sheng Laiyun said that carrying out sampling surveys is a conventional routine system arrangement.The survey was drawn 500,000 households, about 1.4 million people. The household investigation began on November 1st. It took about two weeks to end the household investigation on November 15.

Shenglaiyun also said that the sample survey of population changes every year is mainly to reflect the changes in the population scientifically and accurately and accurately provide a scientific basis for the central government and relevant departments to formulate demographic policies.