China has announced that its first nationwide census in a decade puts the Chinese population at 1,260,000,000, including people living on the island of Taiwan.
The figure means that the population has grown by 132.2 million since 1990, an increase of 11.7%, said Zhu Zhixin, Director-General of the National Bureau of Statistics.
Annual growth was 1.07% - down 0.4% from the rate in the 1980s.
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The economy:
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