China’s official population falls for the first time in decades
China’s official population falls for the first time in decades
- January 16, 2023
- Wang Feng, sociology, Financial Times, Jan. 16, 2023
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China’s population fell last year for the first time in decades, a historic shift that is expected to have long-term consequences for the domestic and global economies. … “This is a truly historic turning point, an onset of a long-term and irreversible population decline,” said Wang Feng, [professor of sociology], an expert on Chinese demographic change at the University of California, Irvine.
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