When the PRC was founded in 1949, China had a population of 541.67 million. Owing to China’s stable society, rapid production development, improvement of medical and health conditions, insufficient awareness of the importance of population growth control and shortage of experience, the population grew rapidly, reaching 806.71 million in 1969. From the 1970s, China had implemented the policy of population increment control and thus the birth rate began to decrease. By 2000, the annual rate of population growth had decreased to less than 17 per thousand. At present, China basically turned into the type of population reproduction in low birth, death and increase.
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