China’s population decline accelerates as economy reaches low growth target
China’s population decline accelerates as economy reaches low growth target
- January 17, 2024
- Wang Feng, sociology, Financial Times, New Zealand Herald, Jan. 17, 2024
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Wang Feng, an expert on Chinese demographics at the University of California, Irvine, said the decline of 2mn people revealed the “footprint of Covid-19”, which spread through the country in early 2023 after authorities hastily lifted the anti-pandemic measures. … “It is very likely that the rapid increase in number of deaths comes from the chaotic ending of zero-Covid, which led to many excess deaths,” Wang of the University of California said.
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