Article source: Free Times on 2019-01-24
The Russian social media "Pikabu" quoted an article entitled "China's population data deception" earlier this month. The content mentioned that China did not achieve its strategic goals and deliberately exaggerated the total domestic population. Actually, according to the population data of each province, the total population may not be approaching 1.4 billion, the officially claimed from government. it should be only 800 million or even 500 million.
According to a comprehensive foreign media report, Pikabu quoted the Russian critic Viktor Mekhov as saying that China had a population of 430 million in 1845. After 100 years, despite the heavy losses from the war between China and Japan, in 1945, the Chinese officially announced that the population had grown to 490 million. Later, after the Communist Party implemented the "Great Leap Forward" and "Cultural Revolution" and caused numerous deaths and injuries, the Chinese population that experienced the "one-child policy" has reached 1 billion people.
Michael Woo mentioned that at the Peking University seminar in 2017, it was mentioned that the actual population of China was only 1.29 billion people, which was 90 million fewer than the officially announced figures at that time. After the relationship between population growth, it can be known that the actual population is absolutely not officially announced, it should be 800 million or 500 million, the official data is obviously exaggerated, and this action may be from strategic considerations.
But the scholar of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PAH) Andre. Ostrovsky (Андрей Островский) believes that the Chinese authorities have no reason to understate or exaggerate the population, because China's economic orientation is controlled by the state, and the main indicators for managing the economy depend on the size of the population, which can determine the country's production capacity, housing construction, etc. Vasily Kashin, an expert at the Center for Strategic and Technical Analysis, agrees that the "floating population will cause GDP to be pulled down."
