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The 1953 Chinese census, officially the First National Population Census of the People's Republic of China, was conducted by the People's Republic of China starting on June 30, 1953. The results were summarized in Chinese newspapers on November 1, 1954. As the full results were not published, they had to subsequently be assembled from Soviet sources over the next five years.

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Total population

The official summaries listed the total population of mainland China in 1953 as 582,603,417.

Demographics

13.26% of the population (77,257,282 persons) were listed as residing in urban areas comprising 163 cities,[n 1] industrial and mining districts,[n 2] and about 1450 towns.[n 3] Of the urban population, roughly 1 in 12 resided in Shanghai.

Distribution

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Controversy

China had never previously had an official national census in the modern period[5] and estimates of its population even in 1911 varied between 200,000,000 and 400,000,000.[6] Mistrust of PRC statistics that saw the number of cities go from 60 under the Nationalist government to 103 within four years and that involved "indirectly survey[ing]" several areas including Tibet led some Western academics like George Cressey to claim, "These inflated figures are designed to impress the world with China's strength, to support claims for a falling death rate, or to supply an excuse for food shortages."[7]

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Notes

  1. Chinese: , p shì. (103 locations with a population greater than 100,000 and 60 others considered to be major economic centers.)
  2. t 工礦處, s 工矿处, p gōngkuàngchù, w kung-k'uang ch'ü.
  3. t , s , p zhèn, w chen.

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