[Cardhu]

It is thought that the population grew by about 1% last year, which would mean growth of around 130m people - or almost half the population of the US - in the last 10 years.

[Chickensoup]

The book Poorly Made in China mentions that the author thinks the census is wildly off its mark and that there are much less people than ascribed to China.

He states that the Chinese have a need to be biggest, most and best in order not to lose face, and reality and truth suffer.

[pnh102]

If China manages to get this done in 10 days, it would put out make-work census efforts to shame. How long did it take to count 300ish million people here, 10 months?

[momtothree]

We all know what they will do with the children who are a second child to the family or a woman who is pregnant and already has one child. Sorry to sound jaded but that is the way they are. Just a thought.

[WOBBLY BOB]

how can they even get a close estimate without the Census Dancers?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szn8d3sgtxY

[appeal2]

The Chinese are making a big mistake. They should hire the people who ran the US Census. Then they would be able to keep those 6 million employees busy for 2 years and they could double and triple count them in the workforce. Think of how the Chicom economy would boom. There’s nothing quite like census jobs for building a nation’s wealth.