An early leak of what the eagerly-awaited 2010 Chinese national census will contain comes with figures showing a population of 23 million people for Shanghai – the Shanghai Daily reported on Tuesday.
That is 14 million permanent residents and a whopping 9 million migrants. The official census results will not be announced until later in the year. But these numbers are already generating calls for extra controls on internal migration.
This will be China’s sixth census (they are conducted every ten years), and will be the first to count people where they live, and not where their hukou, or resident certificate is legally registered.
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