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Census takers register a resident's information via an electronic device
at a community of Suqian City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Nov. 1,
2020. China on Sunday started its seventh national population count,
with about 7 million census takers going door to door to document
demographic changes in the world's most populous country. (Photo by
Zheng Xujun/Xinhua)
China on Sunday started its seventh national population count, with
about 7 million census takers going door to door to document demographic
changes in the world's most populous country. Carrying out the census is critical to understand the population
size, structure and distribution, said Ning Jizhe, deputy head of the
National Development and Reform Commission, at a video conference to
promote the national census. The census collects data including name, ID number, gender, marital status, education and profession of Chinese citizens. Huang Chenglin, a staffer with the census office of Liangqing
District in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous
Region, came to a community on Sunday morning to help residents use a
registration service. Under the guidance of Huang, the whole
registration process only takes a few minutes. There are more than 3,000 census takers like Huang in the district, among over 280,000 in the autonomous region. Residents are encouraged to use mobile terminals to report personal and family information. "With just a few clicks on your smartphone, you can fill in all the
census information. It's very convenient," said Wei Ziqing, a resident
in Liangqing District. China has conducted a national population census every 10 years since
the 1990s. The previous census found its population had increased to
1.37 billion. Enditem
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