China's Population: Too Many or Too Old? The Issue of Population Quantity and Structure in Contemporary China

Author: Zhai Zhenwu Li Jianxin
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: As a world population giant, China's population size issue has not only been the subject of demographers but has also been a hot topic of concern for generations of politicians and scholars. In recent years, with fertility rates falling below replacement level, China's population size issue has become intertwined with population structure issues, becoming increasingly complex and emerging as a new focal point of debate in the field of demography at the turn of the century. The papers collected in this book represent the main works of the key figures in this debate. Readers will find that honesty, sharpness, and direct confrontation are distinctive features of this book, with blunt questions and named criticisms appearing everywhere. Despite the intense debate among all parties, we can be certain that the goals of all debaters are the same: to seek patterns and explore truth.