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The 15th Straits Forum, the biggest in-person people-to-people exchange event across the Taiwan Straits since the COVID-19 pandemic, has attracted more than 5,000 attendees from the island, including young people who are now working, studying and living in the mainland, as well as those who are looking forward to opportunities in the mainland despite the cross-Straits tensions caused by the secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and collusion between the Taiwan authorities and Washington.
China has seen an increasing number of foreign residents while continuing to open up in the past decade, the latest population census shows.
A total of 845,697 foreigners were living on the Chinese mainland in 2020 when the seventh national census was conducted, up about 250,000 from a decade ago.
Around 402,000 of them are male, according to the report of the once-in-a-decade survey, which was published on Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics.
China started to track the population of foreigners in the sixth national census in 2010 and found 593,832 foreigners working and studying on the mainland.
Duan Chengrong, a demographic researcher in Beijing, said the inclusion of foreigners in China s national census had followed an increase in the number of foreign nationals in the new century.
China embraces increasing foreign residents By LI LEI | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-05-12 07:35 Share CLOSE
China has seen an increasing number of foreign residents while continuing to open up in the past decade, the latest population census shows.
A total of 845,697 foreigners were living on the Chinese mainland in 2020 when the seventh national census was conducted, up about 250,000 from a decade ago.
Around 402,000 of them are male, according to the report of the once-in-a-decade survey, which was published on Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics.
China started to track the population of foreigners in the sixth national census in 2010 and found 593,832 foreigners working and studying on the mainland.