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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- Preface -- 1 The Population Record -- The Census of 1953 -- Earlier Methods and Findings -- Figures and Figments Since 1953 -- 2 Vital Statistics and Population Growth -- Levels in Former China -- Fertility -- Mortality -- Natural Increase, Present Size and Prospects -- 3 Urban Population -- The City in Perspective -- Data and Definitions -- Trends in Urban Migration -- A Figure for the Urban Population? -- 4 Population Distribution and Migration -- Early Population Movements -- Migration Since 1949 -- Current Levels of Migration -- 5 National Minorities -- Living with a Dilemma -- Numbers and Distribution -- The Pattern of Differences -- 6 Implications and Consequences -- The Economics of China's Manpower -- Food Resources and Population -- Population and Power Politics -- Appendix: Sources of Data for the People's Republic -- Bibliography -- Index.

China's drive towards modernization has been accompanied by a phenomenal increase in the number of statistics available. The statistical hiatus during the Cultural Revolution was followed by a revived and revitalized State Statistical Bureau (SSB) which in recent years has been churning out figures on every conceivable aspect of China's economy and society. Notoriously suspect in the past, China's statistics are now recognized as being much more indicative of the true state of China's development and, what is more, they are improving.

China's drive towards modernization has been accompanied by a phenomenal increase in the number of statistics available. This commentary is limited to statistics on higher education and, more specifically, to the number of people in China who have completed courses in higher education. Orleans concludes that the gross figures currently in use at home and abroad on the total number of university graduates are, in fast, grossly exaggerated. (DÜI-Sen)

Assessment of how Soviet experts perceive the development of science and technology in mainland China. The USSR's massive economic and technical aid to the PRC in the fifties. Soviet and American interests in the development of science and technology compared. (DÜI-Sen)