Answer to One China Travel Question
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Q: How many people live in china?
| | A: The Chinese population is 1.3 billion. That is one billion more than the population of the United States. Of the population, about 92% are the Han or "Chinese" Chinese. The rest are China's minority peoples, groups such as Manchurians, Mongols, Uighurs, Tibetans, etc. The overwhelming majority of the population also lives in the eastern part of China whereas the western part of the country is not all that hospitable to human inhabitation. This of course means great population density in the country. To slow down the population growth, for about twenty years the Chinese government enforced the so-called One Child Policy, but mostly in urban areas. In countryside, it has been to be a policy impractical and hard to implement. Many peasant families have two or three or even more children. In recent years the government has begun to go easy on the said policy as "graying of the population" is becoming a problem for the country. In the meantime, economic forces have also come into effect, and there is a natural tendency for urban Chinese families to have few kids (in Japan, even without an agressive population control policy, the average family size is no larger than four people - parents and one or two kids).
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