An editorial for China Focus suggests much more complexity to the Chinese census report than Western media revealed in their reporting.
China’s latest census has therefore revealed much more than just an ageing society. Rather, it has shown China is now more highly-educated, gender balanced, cosmopolitan and urban than at any point in its existence. …
That these changes have happened showcases the real findings of the census; that China’s society has progressed and developed enormously over the past ten-years.