Beijing census to begin in late 2010

BEIJING - People whose households are registered in Beijing who have violated family planning policies and had more babies than allowed can have a child's household registered in the capital without penalty when Beijing conducts its sixth census starting this November.

People with three kinds of certificates - ex-prisoners, the demobilized and the relocated - who are in line with household registration policies in Beijing, can also settle down in the capital during the census, the municipal government said on Wednesday.

The sixth nationwide population census will start in November and finish in June 2012.