National Census in China

Hi, MagicalBubbles! Most of the 6 million are volunteers who are temporarily hired by the government to finish this task. It's rather difficult to count more than 1.3 billion peoples. Two volunteers went to my dormitory at night the day before yesterday. Actually the method was very primitive. Volunteers went to every house and counted how many persons are living in it.

Well, they are the largest when it comes to the population. But that number is still very surprising. And to think they already implemented population control in the past...

We have our census here in the UK next year, then we'll find out just how big the "+" is in 60 + million people on our small island!

I've collected the census a couple of times now. The first time was in a country town and I had my area allocation and it was quite easy. The last time though was in a remote bush area and I had to travel over many properties and through many gates only to discover a dilapidated house with no occupants. Things are tough in the bush. I needed a guide who knew the district to help me and open gates. I actually had a great time but I did do a LOT of driving over a vast area. I only counted about 200 homes. When I thought about people in the cities doing apartment blocks, my mind boggled. China would be about 100 times worse with people living in extreme poverty and imagine too those people living in junks and sampans. It's just too hard to take it all in.

Oh my god! 6 million civil servants roaming in china! WEll, in my opinion, that 7 million something in canada is not sure because not all people there are registered. Am i right? Well correct me if im wrong. And enlighten me more of this please.

Not surprised much ... the population of China itself is too much ... they need so many volunteers......

That is really insane, but I think people who do not live in China just can't imagine how big the population there is. So I guess in a way it makes sense, but it sounds like an incredible amount, you are completely right!

yes china is the country with more people in the world^^ people even say that in a few hours will be so many chinese guys that wont even have enough girls for them ahah also bcs in china they dont want to have daughters but sons. anyway i think that is a nonsense. what matter if is a son or a daughter? we have to accept what appears anyway ^^ yes is kinda a shock that there are so many chinese people in the world ahah even in my country in all streets there is at least or one chinese store or a chinese restaurant^^ a lot of chinese people here also so you can imagine that they dont fit in their own country i guess^^ if they all stayed in china would have to sleep all over each other ahah anyway i love chinese people so im happy that here i can go to many chinese stores^^ or i used to^^ now i almost dont have money so i dont go to a chinese store since awhile^^

Yeah, I think it is possible to hire this much people, because china is one of the most populated country in the world and as you think six million wandering around for collecting data, would not be seems like this, they ll not be seen even as there are more other people in the country I think six million is enough to take such data...:)