1.3 Billion People： A Weighty Responsibility——China＇s Population Policy

A sample survey of the 2004 population increase releasedby the State Statistics Bureau shows that by the end of 2004 the total population of the Chinese mainland was 1.29988 billion, and that it was increasing by 208,000 people per day. According to this data,on January 6, 2005,China‘s population(excluding HongKong, Macao andTaiwan) reached 1.3 billion.