Control Sex Ratio at Birth,Promote the Balanced Development of Population --An Interview with Professor Zhai Zhenwu

Professor Zhai Zhenwu, born in February 1954, is now a member of the National Population and Family Planning Committee of Experts and Director of the Demography Institute under the Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Science of the Ministry of Education. Besides, as a doctoral supervisor and one of the academic leaders in China＇s population studies, he now serves as the Dean of the School of Sociology and Population Studies and the Director of the Population and Development Research Center in Renmin University of China. Moreover, he is also the Chairman of Beijing Population Society and Executive Vice Chairman of China Population Society. Right now, he is devoted to demography and the study of population, resources and environmental economics.     

Family Planning Benefits Reproductive Health——Case Study of Shanghai

Reproductive health is a new concept put forward by the international community in recent years. In April 1994, WHO defined reproductive health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its function and processes. The concept gained international recognition at the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in September 1994. Based on the global repro…     

Tibet''''s Population Grows

Tibet, covering an area of 1.2 million square km with an average elevation of 3,000 meters, is known as the 搑oof of the world? Notwithstanding the plateau scenery and Buddhist culture there, Tibet is a harsh place to live. However, the Tibetan population in the region is growing fast thanks to improved socioeconomic conditions. In fact, now is the fastest-growing period of population growth in the history of Tibet. Statistics show that today, Tibet抯 total population stands at 2.615 millio…     

South China Feels Acute Labor Shortage

The Pearl River Delta, with Guangzhou — the capital of Guangdong Province — as its nucleus, has for years been an economic powerhouse in China.Millions of surplus rural workers once flocked to the south China region to find jobs, but now the area is facing a crisis: many farmers-turned-laborers are shunning the Pearl River area and are moving instead to the Yangtze River Delta,     

HIV/AIDS in China

Status QuoAn epidemiological survey jointly conducted by China and the WHO and UNAIDS indicates that China now has 840,000 people living with HIV/AIDS, 80,000 of whom are AIDS patients. Although this figure translates into a mere 0.6‰ of the country's total population, the total number comes the second place in Asia and the 14th in the world. The prevalence rate among adults is less than 0.1%, but the epidemic has been found in all the 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) of the country and the number of newly-infected people is increasing fast. Major methods of HIV transmission include drug-taking, blood donation (a major means of living for farmers in some impoverished regions) and sex.     

Silent String Sounds——Huang Ming’s Oil Paintings

Huang Ming’s oil paintings are clearly categorized as still lifes according to the classification of traditional painting. Since the Renaissance, painters have not paid much attention to still-life paintings compared to painting creation of religious or historical themes. The reason is that still-life paintings belong to a small category in the painting field and they only present limited images and contents, which cannot fully demonstrate the painters’ exceptional artistic abilities and extraordinary techniques. Thus, still lifes are often not the favor of painters and sponsors. However, important reforms and changes in watching experience in art history can often be realized by     

The Large Population in China: A Major Obstacle to Modernization?

"A large population" has long been the most prominent national condition of China. Whilepopulation research has been of 20 years in China, the relationship between population andmodernization attracts not much attention, and in the practical life, population issues are typically regarded as issues of population quantity which in turn are oversimplified as fertility issues. Hence, a misunderstanding is prevailing that "a large population" is the whole thing ofChina's population problems. This issue of "Population and Development Forum" attempts to open up views objectively toexamine the actual situation of "a large population in China", and to bring together the wisdom of different disciplines on population problems influencing the process of modermization.     

Empirical Analysis of the Impact on the Citizenization of Rural Migrant Workers from Urban-rural Dual Institution

In the article,we attribute the main institutional reasons for impacts on citizenization of migrant workers to the urban-rural dual institution, and analyze its content and the basic characteristics.Then empirical analysis of the impact on the will, the ability,decision-making and process of citizenization of migrant workers is given by use of Logistic regressive model and investigation data.Finally a result is found that although the migrant workers have a strong desire for becoming citizens, the vast majority of migrant workers can not be converted to the public because of their capacity constraints, so as soon as possible to improve their ability of citizenization becomes the key to promote citizenization of migrant workers;furthermore,in the urban-rural dual institution,in addition to the household registration system,the employment system, the social security system,the land system and the education system have obvious obstacles on the will, the ability decision-making and process of citizenization of migrant workers.Therefore,the future focus of innovation of the urban-rural dual institution can not continue to remain in the formal aspects of the household registration system,but as soon as possible to switch to innovation of the employment system,the social security system,the land system and the education system which have a substantial impact on the rights and benefits of rural migrant workers,such as expectations and income.     

How Wide Is the Income Gap in China?

Thanks to the introduction of the reform and opening up policy, China has achieved rapid economic development and recorded a significant rise in the income level of its urban and rural residents as a whole. However, the level of income varies from industry to industry, from rural to urban areas, and from region to region, and the gap is widening. Estimates show that the Gini coefficient (an economic indicator measuring disparities in personal income) in China was 0.424 in 1996, 0.456 in 1998,…     

Empirical Analysis on Impacts of Migration with and without Hukou Change on China's Provincial Economy

Based on the preliminary investigation of spatial and temporal patterns of migration with and without hukou (i.e.,the household registration system ) change and drawing on panel data in the past ten years,this paper uses random coefficient models to examine the impacts of migration on provincial economy growth in China.Analytical results show that:(a) migrations with hukou change across regions have been relatively stable,while migration without hukou change has increased rapidly and continuously since2000with extreme disparities across provinces;(b) the migration and mobility of the population is a Pareto improvement for China’s overall economy;(c)hukou in developed areas plays a role as the hourglass;(d) for most central provinces and some western provinces with large-size of outmigration, the negative impact of the loss of human capital due to large-scale out-migration on local economy began to come out;although outmigration has in general a positive mi pact,its contribution to local economic development is not as obvious as we expected.     

Brief Introduction of Fan Jingma

Fan Jingma came to international attention as a prize winner at the Third Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 1987,and then a silver medal at the Rosa Ponselle International Vocal Competition in1988 and the first prize at the Opera Index Vocal Competition in 1991 in New York.Win an awardAfter having graduated from the conservatory of music in his native     

On the Track of a Sound Market Economy：Expert Interprets Recent Party Decision

O n November 14, 1993, the Third Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Central Committee adopted the decision of the CPC Central Committee on issues involving the establishment of the socialist market economic system, ushering in a new phase in China's economic restructuring and bringing along great impact on the nation's economic and social development. Although China built a framework of socialist market economic system a decade ago, the system is still underdeveloped and imperfect as dee…     

Bulletin of China’s Marine Environmental Status of China for the year of 2010

In accordance with the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Marine Environmental Protection and the mandate entrusted by the State Council,the State Oceanic Administration of China(SOA) organized and conducted marine environmental surveillance,monitoring and assessment for the sea areas under China’s jurisdiction in 2010 with a view to knowing well the overall environmental status of the sea areas, safeguarding the social and public security,promoting the transformation of economic development patterns in the coastal areas and effectively serving the sustainable development of marine economy.Based on the results of the surveillance,monitoring and assessment,the"Bulletin of China’s Environmental Status for the Year of 2010"has been prepared and is now issued.     

Gathering Commemorates Demographic Forerunner

On June 13, 2002, about 300 demographers, researchers and experts gathered in Beijing to commemorate the 120th birthday of Ma Yinchu, a renowned demographer and a forerunner of family planning. Born on June 24, 1882, Ma was a legend in China抯 history of thinking. He was an educator as well as an economist spanning two centuries. In 1957, he published his famous book entitled New Population Theory. In the book, he assessed the population situation in China, analyzed the conflict between…     

Fengxian, Shanghai: Improved Services for Migrants

Recent years have seen an increase in the migrant population in Fengxian, Shanghai by 50,000 a year as a result of rapid socioeconomic development. In 2005, the migrant population in this district reached 370,000, close to the total number of permanent residents. This group of people is critical, therefore, to the district government and even the     

Servile Straw Mat and Precious Memory——Impression of Huang Ming’s Still Life

Almost in the same period of time, I was acquainted with Huang Ming, Fan Bo and Lei Bo. Five years ago, Huang Ming was a neighbor of Fan Bo when he lived in Beijing. So, if I visited one of them, the other one would be called to join the gathering. It was interesting to discover although they had totally different personality and style of painting, they had one single commonality in the form of expression, which gave me the deepest impression. Their paintings showed two core elements. In many paintings of Fan, you would see a withered tree and a man under the tree; while in many of Huang’s paintings, you would see an aged object and a straw mat underneath.     

China＇s Information Technology Level Equals That of the Moderately Developed Countries in General

According to Xinhua News, as of the end of 2009, the actual permanent population of Beijing had reached 19.72 million, including the household population of 12.46 million and the floating population of 7.264 million living in the city for more than half a year. Immnigration of the whole family had been seen annual increases, taking a proportion of 41.2%. The rapid population growth had brought stresses to Beijing on its water resources, energy consumption, transportation as well as such problems as shortage of food,     

The Transformation and Reform of Urbanization in China

Birth defects affect the quality of the newborn population, and have became a major public health problem in China. Genetic factors, environmental factors, and the interaction of the two is the direct cause of the incidence ofbirth defects. This review, based on the neural tube defects as an example, give insight into the pathogenesis of birth defects from the genomics, epigenetics, metabonomics and environment factors and explore new strategy of birth defect prevention in China.     

Higher Public Tolerance Toward AIDS

As AIDS takes its toll in China, public awareness of AIDS is increasing and attitude toward AIDS becoming more tolerant. Officials with the Beijing Public Health Bureau announced that the number of HIV carriers now reaches two per 10,000 people. The city has a permanent population of over 10 million. A recent survey of 200 households in Beijing found that 57% of those polled said they would understand and care for AIDS patients regardless of the cause; 44% were sympathetic; 3…     

Impact of Family Planning on Chinese Families

ince its inception in the late 1970s and along with the reform and opening-up drive, the family planning program in China has brought significant changes to the national economy as well as people抯 lives. During the two decades, the central government and the State Council issued a series of documents guiding the national family planning work. These include the Open Letter to All Party and Youth League Members on Controlling Population Growth in China issued in 1980, the Decision on Stre…