Yet whoever is right, the NBS announcement highlights the acceleration of Chinese population changes.
Still, the huge Chinese population means that even these spending levels are low on a per-person basis.
On the economic front, the total Chinese population over 65 is rising, percentage wise, at one of the fastest rates in the world.
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Mr. Najib's predecessors crafted the measures to give a leg up to the country's ethnic-Malay Muslims to reduce tensions with the wealthier ethnic-Chinese population.
Here, the focus is on studying the genetics of diseases that particularly afflict the Chinese population, such as hepatocellular carcinoma, a form of liver cancer.
Currently, only 40% of the Chinese population accesses Internet through mobile phones and only 150 million of around 1.4 billion Chinese citizens have 3G connections.
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And with New York City having the largest Chinese population in the country, there are a variety of celebratory events going on around town for both locals and visitors.
The demand is as large as the Chinese population and economy, and supply of exquisite objects limited, thanks to most being in Western museums or private collections.
Collins may also be comfortable with the untapped potential in the Chinese population and the relative valuation of a company like Netease to its closest American Internet peer.
That the suicide rate among those who work at the Foxconn factories was lower than the suicide rate in the general Chinese population did seem to pass many by at the time.
And 5 years from now when a significant percentage of the Chinese population can afford a personal computer, I have a hunch that it will be Chinese computers, rather than imported American computers, that will be their computer of choice.
Those are tiny numbers compared with the four million students studying Spanish in this country, but Mandarin's appeal is growing, both because of economic prospects and because of an expanding Chinese immigrant population here.
With 47% of the population now living in cities, eight Chinese cities have a population of more than 10 million, and 93 have more than 5 million.
The Chinese government's population-planning commission forecasts another 100m rural residents could move to cities by 2020.
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From the middle of last century the population of Chinese paddlefish has declined rapidly due to overfishing, habitat degradation and pollution.
Although Chinese officials define the population as being already nearly 50% urban, the number of urban hukou holders is only around 35%.
It is more a collection of micromarketers, aiming to prove to this population of Chinese runners or that subset of American skateboarders that it has just the right shirt or sneaker for their sports.
The local population excluding expatriates and other foreign nationals form about two-thirds of its 5 odd million population, with Chinese-Singaporeans making up about 75% of these, followed by Malay-Singaporeans with 15%, Indian-Singaporeans about 9% and rest comprising various ethnic backgrounds.
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Yangon has a pleasant charm and gentle energy, with vast gardens and riverside walks, the grandeur of centuries-old monuments such as the Shwedegon Pagoda, a fast-growing cultural scene of art galleries and music performances, and a melting pot population of all Myanmar's tribes as well as industrious overseas Indians and Chinese, who make up 5% of the nation's population.
Last year the ranks of working-age Chinese fell as a percentage of the population.
Church leaders in Myitkyina say Chinese people make up more than half the population.
It is the rural population, however, that makes the Chinese numbers so big, and selling to them is another matter.
According to data released by the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics over the weekend, population of working age (15-59) was 937.27 million in 2012, a decrease of 3.45 million over the previous year.
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The internet has become an important part of Chinese culture, with the country's increasingly diverse population embracing the technology's many powerful features.
In the past, it was rare for Chinese to leave their home regions, and four-fifths of the population was rural.
Roughly 12% of the Chinese sample owned a car with only 0.7% of the population (6% of the automobile purchasers) borrowing money to purchase a car.
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With a population over four times that of the United States, the Chinese economy will surpass the American economy in sheer size within the next 20 years.
Relations between the Chinese and the Malays, who make up 15% of Singapore's population, have sometimes been strained.
Put together Mongolian supply and Chinese demand, and Mongolia will be rich beyond the wildest dreams of a population many of whom, a generation ago, saw themselves as nomadic herders.
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