At present, 18 provinces and cities in China have announced that the birth rate of last year has dropped compared with the previous year, and the population of 11 provinces has dropped by more than 10%.

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(Associated Press)

[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] Chinese Premier Li Qiang recently said that China's demographic dividend has not disappeared, but according to the data released by 18 provinces and cities on births last year, compared with the previous year's birth rate decline, there are 11 provinces whose population has dropped more than 1 percent.

Li Qiang, who just became China's new Premier of the State Council, said at his first press conference on the 13th that China's demographic dividend has not disappeared.

He also said that the demographic dividend depends on the number of people, but also on the quality of the population; in addition to the number of people, it also depends on the number of talents.

Emphasize that rich human resources are still a huge advantage or a significant advantage for China.

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Although Li Qiang constantly emphasized that the demographic dividend has not disappeared, according to statistics, 18 of the 31 provinces and cities in China have announced a decline in the number of births and birth rates last year compared with 2021, and the number of births in 18 provinces has not increased but decreased , Including Hebei, Anhui, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian, Gansu, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hainan and other 11 provinces, the number of births dropped by more than 10% last year.

Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Gansu, and Chongqing experienced negative population growth, with Liaoning -4.96‰, Hunan -2.31‰, Inner Mongolia -2.25‰, and Hubei -2.01‰.

In addition, as early as January 17 this year, China's National Bureau of Statistics also announced that China's population at the end of last year was 1.41175 billion, a decrease of 850,000 compared with the end of 2021. This is the first negative population growth in 61 years.

Li Qiang, who just became China's new Premier of the State Council, said at his first press conference on the 13th that China's demographic dividend has not disappeared, and that the talent dividend is gradually taking shape.

(Associated Press)