| Sustainable development has been as a new guideline and strategy, which is more accepted worldwide and a goal for development in the 21st century. As the fact that production output and economic growth is defined as an indicator to evaluate social development, increase of economic strength may make a country use its existing resources at maximum. There is a possibility for a country with a high economic growth rate at the expense of environment. The production mode dependable upon resources obviously causes a series of problems.Population development is closely related to sustainable development strategy. China, as a developing country with a largest population, has exposed to a problem with population affecting its economic, social and sustainable development. At present China is characterized with low birth rate, low natural growth rate and low death rate, but along with low birth rate and high birth quantity. New-birth population of 10 million a year will go on for several decades. Thus, economy, society, environment, and sustainable development is challenging with great pressures, population quality is hardly improved to much in a short time. Number of working people increases and employment opportunity decreases. Under the situation in which economy is less developed and the aged society is coming, establishment of mature social insurance will be more difficult. Unbalance among regional economy and social development will be long run. Difficulty of poverty eradication, increase of migrants to urban areas and resettlement of people has broken up with original management system and traditional social economy structure as well as stability and population policies.This paper discusses the relations of Chinese population sustainable development, involves with population amount, structure, distribution and quality, for the purpose of a better understanding of implication of China population and sustainable development based on specialists' and scholars' studies home and abroad. |
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