Blog: Five Predictions About China’s Looming Census Results
China conducts a national population census every 10 years. The results are closely watched all around the world. After all, any change in China’s demographic data a huge market of approximately 1.4 billion people can trigger an immeasurable butterfly effect.
At a March 15 news briefing, a spokesperson for the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said that the final review and summary for the seventh national population census data were underway.
“We plan to release the census results at a press conference in April,” the spokesperson said.
But April is already over and the census results have not yet been announced, which has triggered speculation among the public.
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China expects highway traffic to set record during Labour Day holiday Reuters 2 hrs ago
BEIJING, April 27 (Reuters) - Travel during China s upcoming Labour Day holiday is expected to surge, with highway traffic on May 1 alone likely to exceed 60 million vehicles and set a new high, the government said on Tuesday.
Traffic on the national highway network will likely surpass the record 57 million vehicles clocked on May 1, 2019, said the transport ministry s Highway Monitoring and Response Center.
Average daily traffic on the national expressway network during the May 1-5 holiday is expected to hit 52.5 million to 54.5 million vehicles, according to the centre. That would be 16% to 20% higher than last year s holiday traffic over the same period and 2% to 6% above 2019.
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The aggregate of visitors to Macau in March rose by 255.4 percent from a year earlier, to 754,541. The figure was up 76.7 percent month-on-month, according to data released on Thursday by the city’s Statistics and Census Service.
The number of mainland visitors grew by 674.4 percent year-on-year in March, to 688,353. They accounted for about 91.2 percent of all visitors to Macau last month.
Currently only mainland China has a largely quarantine-free travel bubble with Macau.
Visitors classified as travelling from nine cities within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, amounted to 388,094 of March’s arrivals, or 51.4 percent of Macau’s total that month.