HONG KONG: China will begin polling 1.4 million people on Wednesday (Nov 1) in a survey on population changes, as authorities struggle to incentivise people to have more children amid a declining birth rate and the fir
, as authorities struggle to incentivise people to have more children amid a declining birth rate and the first population drop in more than six decades.
It will help provide a basis to monitor China's population developmental changes and for the government and Communist Party to formulate national economic, social development and population-related policies, it said.
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