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China has started to evolve from typically young population of developing nation into an adult population. Nevertheless, in international perspective, the Chinese population is still quite young. The marked fall infertility since the launching of the one-child campaign in 1979 is too recent to have affected the numbers above childhood. In spite of relatively highlife expectancy China does not yet qualify as an old-age population, and the problem of aging will not become serious until well into the next century. While the variations in the aging population trend between the Han and minority nationalities and those between the rural and urban areasare small, the differences between the advanced coastal region and the backward interior are striking. Shanghai has already turned into an 'aged city'. Although the 'greying' of China is not expected to lead to a labour shortage or to state of 'overdependency', the gradual shift of the dependency burden from the young to the old will substantially increase government expenditure on the support of the non-working population. Given China's low GNP, the ability of the State to provide universal pension scheme for its rapidly growing numbers of retirees is suspect.

The article examines the diversity of aging population trends throughout China and inquires whether aging is an imminent or a distant problem for the country. It also takes a look at a number of major socio-economic problems associated with the aging of China's population paying special attention to the mounting financial burden on the state due to retirement pensions. (DÜI-Sen)

China's new marriage laws, far-reaching economic reforms and political turmoil are the major variables responsible for the waves of divorce that swept the swept country in the early 1950s and thirty years later. With the legal divorce procedures geared towards reconciliation rather than dissolution of a marriage the leadership has been able to check upward trends. The article traces current divorce patterns, including causes of divorce, age at divorce, remarriage etc. (DÜI-Sen)

The study explores two complimentary aspects in order to obtain a complete picture of the nutritional status of China's population. The first aspect refers to food availability and consumption including the structure of the diet, while the second one deals with the manifestations of malnutrition. Malnutrition in China the result of undernourishment rather than overeating. (DÜI-Sen)

After a brief outline of the country's present demographic circumstances, the study scrutinizes the impact of the current birth-control campaign on China's population growth. Rural and urban performance in birth-planning work. Variations in birth-planning success due to ethnic background: official policy does not require family planning for minority nationalities. China is still a long way from meeting the 1985 numerical target of the first stage of its population plan - i.e., to lower this rate to 5 per 1000