Population growth concerns

An annual population growth rate of 0.57 percent in the last decade, or a net increase of 73.90 million people, points to the necessity of further maintaining the family-planning policy and keeping the country's population growth rate at a reasonable level.

The net increase in the population was 130 million from 1990 to 2000, 56 million more than in the 2001-2010 period. So it is clear that family planning has achieved a great deal.

Given its great population, China needs to continue the family-planning policy as its population will continue to grow over the next two decades before it peaks at a predicted1.5 billion.