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* Zhang Liping, Deputy Director, Associate Researcher, Social Development Office, Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 1 Economic Development China’s economy continued to grow but at a lower rate. GDP was 56.88452 trillion yuan at the end of 2013. GDP was 41.9908 trillion yuan during the 1st–3rd quarters of 2014, up 7.4% compared with the same period of the previous year, while the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries grew by 4.2%, 7.4%, and 7.9%, respectively. The tertiary industry pla…

* Zhang Liping, associate research fellow of the Institute of Sociology, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 1 Economic Development With the slowdown of China’s economic development, the GDP for the whole year of 2015 was 68,550.58 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.9%. The primary, secondary and tertiary industries boosted the growth of the GDP by 0.3%. 2.9% and 3.7% respectively; in the first three quarters of 2016, the gross domestic product was 52,997.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.7%.…

In Chinese Research Perspectives on Society, Volume 2 | ISBN: 9789004276536 * Zhang Liping is an associate researcher at the Sociology Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 1 Economic Development Chinese economic growth is stable. As of the end of the third quarter of 2012, national GDP was 32.0692 trillion yuan. Calculated based on constant prices, that’s a year-on-year growth of 7.7 percent. Growth in primary industries was 4.2 percent, 8.1 percent in secondary industries, and 7.9 percent in tertiary industries (see Figure 14.1). figure 14.1 Changes to total GDP an…

1 Economic1 Development In 2016, the GDP of China was 74,412.72 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.7%. The primary, secondary, and tertiary industries boosted the growth of the GDP by 0.3%, 2.5%, and 3.9% respectively. In the first three quarters of 2017, the gross domestic product was 59,328.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.9%. The total retail sales of consumer goods witnessed a constant increase. In 2016, the total retail sales of consumer goods were 33,231.63 billion yuan, an increase of 10.4% over the previous year. From Janu…

In The China Society Yearbook, Volume 5 | ISBN: 9789004182509 ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ Zhang Liping ¶

* Zhang Liping, associate research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 1 Economic Development China’s economic growth has changed from a high rate to a medium-high rate. China’s economy has grown by 9.5% in 2011 over the previous year, 7.7% in 2012 and 2013, 7.3% in 2014 and 6.9% in the first three quarters of 2015. The GDP was 40,890.3 billion yuan and 63,613.87 billion yuan in 2010 and 2014, with the latter being 1.56 times the former; the GDP was 48,777.3 billion yuan in…

In Chinese Research Perspectives on Society, Volume 1 | ISBN: 9789004246232 I. Total Population and Structural Changes Under the combined action of economic development, social transformation, and the birth control policy, the structure of China's population has undergone a historic transformation and has developed from condition of a high birthrate, a high death rate, and a low natural growth rate to one of a high birthrate, a low death rate, and a high natural growth rate, and now to that of a low birthrate, a…

1 Economic Development In12 2017, the GDP of China was 82,712.17 billion yuan, ranking after the United States and being second in the world, with a year-on-year increase of 6.9%. The per capita GDP reached 59,660 yuan, seeing an increase of 6.3% over the previous year and ranking 95th in the world (with 217 countries and regions participating in the ranking). By industrial sectors, the added value of the primary industry was 6,546.8 billion yuan with an increase of 3.9%, accounting for 7.9% of the GDP; the added value of the secondary industry was 33,462…

This chapter adopts the data on the willingness to bear children and the childbearing plan in the Chinese General Social Survey 2015 and compares relevant survey results in 2011 to analyze the willingness to bear children and the childbearing plan of the groups of childbearing age in China. According to relevant research, at present, the complete fertility level of the groups of childbearing age in China is lower than the replacement level, and with a gradual decrease in age, the complete averag…