According to the national census regulation, if any person tries to prevent census officials or enumerators from performing their duties, he/she is guilty of violating public security and thus deserves punishment.
Chinese President Hu Jintao and eight other top leaders took part in the country's once-in-a-decade census Tuesday at Zhongnanhai, the central leadership compound in Beijing, or entrusted their families to submit the required information.
Starting Monday, millions of census takers will fan out across China, visiting 400 million households to get an accurate count of the population over a 10-day period.
Special: China's Sixth Population Census Privacy issue confronts census takers
Starting Monday, millions of census takers will fan out across China, visiting 400 million households to get an accurate count of the population over a 10-day period.Special: China's Sixth Population Census Privacy issue confronts census takers
According to the national census regulation, if any person tries to prevent census officials or enumerators from performing their duties, he/she is guilty of violating public security and thus deserves punishment.
China has a population of 1,295.33 million. Of which: The total population of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities (excluding Jinmen and Mazu islands of Fujian Province hereafter) and of servicemen on the mainland of China was 1,265.83 million.
From the early 1970s, the Chinese government became increasingly aware that the over-rapid growth of population was unfavorable to economic and social development and decided to energetically carry out family planning in both urban and rural areas.
Beijing's universities gear up to welcome a new class of international university students.
Chinese nationals married to foreigners will have to settle any marital conflicts according to the law of the country where they live most of the time under proposals that went before Chinese lawmakers Monday.
