{"id":451,"date":"2010-07-18T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=451"},"modified":"2010-09-11T04:14:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T04:14:50","slug":"beijing-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/beijing-population","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Resident Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-452\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/People-Mountains-People-Sea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-452\" title=\"People Mountains, People Sea\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/People-Mountains-People-Sea-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/People-Mountains-People-Sea-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/People-Mountains-People-Sea.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beijing&#39;s actual resident population has reached 19.72 million by the end of last year (2009)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Foreign travelers want to know how many people live in Beijing or the actual resident population in Beijing. Well, according to the recent official statistics, Beijing&#8217;s actual resident population has reached 19.72 million by the end of last year (2009), of which there\u00a0is 7.26 million\u00a0floating population who live in\u00a0Beijing over half year. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">From 2006, the total number of Beijing population growth\u00a0has increased by 543,000 every year, and 70% of the newly added\u00a0population\u00a0are\u00a0floating migrant workers. By the end of 2020, Beijing&#8217;s actual resident population will expand\u00a0to 250\u00a0million, \u00a0exceeding the population control target &#8211; 180 million set by the local authority. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">There are mainly two reasons behind the fast expansion of Beijing actual resident population. First, people in the less developed west area are moving towards Beijing, causing the inbalance between the\u00a0developed urban\u00a0areas and less developed or backwater area.\u00a0 Second, Beijing population service management system\u00a0 has lagged behind and need upgrading. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\">Rapid expansion of the population will inevitably put huge pressure on resources and the environment. Research shows that 98% of\u00a0Beijing&#8217;s energy resources are from other provinces in China.\u00a0Take water resources for example,\u00a0Beijing average annual water availability is only 2.6 billion cubic meters, and the actual use of water exceeds annual average of about 3.6 billion cubic meters of water.<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">40 percent of Beijingers middle class, namely\u00a05.4 million people with an average monthly income of about 6,000 yuan (US$885). About two thirds of the middle class are\u00a0trying\u00a0hard\u00a0to pay off car loans or mortgages. The middle class are mostly government officials, small business owners, corporate middle managers, teachers and doctors.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign travelers want to know how many people live in Beijing or the actual resident population in Beijing. Well, according to the recent official statistics, Beijing&#8217;s actual resident population has reached 19.72 million by the end of last year (2009), of which there\u00a0is 7.26 million\u00a0floating population who live in\u00a0Beijing over half year. \u00a0 From 2006,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-tour-reviews","category-beijing-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}