City's population still increasing

Beijing's sixth census shows that the expatriate community in Beijing has remained stable at 110,000, census officials said on Wednesday.

Gu Yanzhou, deputy director of the Beijing sixth population census unit, said that according to the census, the number of expats in Beijing is consistent with records from the local policy office, which showed there were about 110,000 at the end of 2009.

He said enumerators had visited about 98 percent of families in the city by the time the door-to-door interview period had finished on Monday, and they had collected 8.6 million questionnaires in total.