China set for 1.5bn population
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Shanghai - China, the world&#39;s most populous nation, will see its population grow to nearly 1.5 billion over the next 20 to 30 years, it was reported on Monday.
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China&#39;s population, already the largest in the world, will peak at 1.46 billion in 30 years, straining the country&#39;s healthcare system, putting pressure on jobs, and gobbling up a greater share of the world&#39;s food and energy resources.
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China's railway system is expected to carry some 155 million people over the upcoming Chinese New Year period, the most ever, as people flood home for the traditional festival, a senior official said on Thursday.
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More than 500,000 officials and specialists on July 26 began a survey project that aims to reach more than one million people in 18 cities and 35 counties in the Henan province of Central China to determine how many people there are HIV-positive
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BEIJING, Dec. 12 -- China expects the start of a baby boom next year, state media said Wednesday, in a development that will further strain a country whose resources are already stretched thin by a population of 1.3 billion.
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China is preparing to mark Sunday the centenary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, the father of the country's modernization drive, with a flurry of nationalistic and party celebrations.
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The central bank says China's economy should grow by 10.5 percent this year, state media reported Sunday, even stronger than the 10 percent predicted last week by the National Bureau of Statistics.
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BEIWU, China  - Ethnic rivalries have sparked  recent violent clashes in China, where the government has its  hands full trying to control a country of 1.3 billion people as  economic differences bubble into unrest with growing frequency.
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BEIJING -- A baby boy delivered in a Beijing maternity ward early yesterday became China's 1.3 billionth citizen, the government said, using the occasion to tout its contentious one-child policy.
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BEIJING - China is expected to have more than 600 million cell phone users by 2010, state media said Wednesday.  The Xinhua News Agency, citing the Ministry of Information Industry, said the number of users this year should reach 520 million, up from 460 million in 2006.
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MG Rover is about to seal a Â£1bn agreement to help build 200,000 cars a year in China.
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China's total foreign trade for 2004 is expected to jump 30 percent year-on-year to 1.1 trillion dollars, making it the world's third largest trading power, the Ministry of Commerce said.
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An ageing population could damage the China's supply of cheap labour, the authorities warn.
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China's health care system is struggling to keep pace with the country's blistering economic growth and faces a major challenge in looking after its 1.3 billion people, the health minister said on Monday.
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MODERN lifestyle is taking a heavy toll on the health of urban city dwellers in China. A study by the Chinese Red Cross of 16 Chinese cities, each with more than 1 million people, found that 75 per cent of
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China is creating an investment company to make better use of its $1 trillion foreign currency reserves.
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China has allocated nearly 1.6 million tickets to more than 300,000 people for next year's Beijing Olympics in the first round of booking, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.