Beijing Population

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The population of Beijing has grown rapidly since 1949.The Fivth nationalcensus carried out in 2003 found Beijing contains 13,820,400 population.Migrants,particularly seasonal laborers,have been on the rise since the opening policy was put into effect in 1978.At present,Beijing owns a floating poputation of about three million a year.With a huge population over 14 million today,Beijing has become the third largest city in China,next to Chongqing(30 million) and Shanghai(16 milllion)and remains one of the most densely populated cites in the world.

The composition of Beijing's population consists oAf 56 nationalities with the Han retaining about 96% of the whole and Muslims,Manchus,and Mongolians being next in sequence.As for the life expectancy,in general,permanent residents of Beijing have attained to the age of 74,about twenty years longer as compared to that of 1949.

A,so birth control was taken up after serious consideration by the government in 1978.Now,the family planning principle of 'one family,one child' has become a basic national policy.