1. Instruction for Use
　(1) Introduction Remarks
　(2) Explanations of Statistical Maps, Statistical Graphs and Statistical Tables
　(3) Sources of Basic Data
2. Population Change and Its Determinants in China
3. Evaluation of China’s Vital statistics
4. The Proximate Determinants and Socio-economic Factors of Fertility Decline in China
5. Mortality Trends and Changing Factors in China
6. Internal Migration in China
7. Family Planning in China

1. Population Distribution by Province, China 1980, 1990
2. Population Density by Province, China 1980,1990
3. Proportion of Child Population by Province, China 1964,1987
4. Proportion of Working Age Population by Province, China 1964, 1987
5. Proportion of Population in Elderly Age by Province, China 1964, 1987
6. Dependency Ratio by Province, China 1964,1987
7. Crude Birth Rates per 1000 Population by Province, China 1980,1990
8. Crude Death Rates per 1000 Population by Province, China 1980, 1990
9. Total Fertility Rates by Province, China 1981, 1987
10. Life Expectancy at Birth by Sex and Province, China 1981, 1987
11. Illiteracy Rate by Sex and Province, China 1982, 1987
12. Proportion of Persons Employed in the Primary Industrial Sector by Province, China 1982, 1987
13. Rates of Urban Population by Province, China 190, 1990
14. Migration Rates per 1000 Population by Province, China 1982-87
15. proportion of Children in the First Order in Total Live-births by Province, China 1982, 1987
16. Rates of Practice of Contraceptives by Province, China 1981, 1987
17. Rates of Minority Nationality by Province, China 1982, 1987
18. National Income per Capita by Province, China 1980, 1988

1. Age Specific Birth Rates per 1000 Population by Ethnic and Urban-Rural, China 1981, 1986
2. Age Specific Death Rates per 1000 Population by Sex and Urban-Rural, China 1981, 1987
3. Migration Rates by Province, China 1954-87
4. Migration Rates by Sex, Age and Urban-Rural, China 1982-87
5. Age Pyramid of Population, China 1953, 1964, 1982, 1987
6. Age Pyramid of Population by Urban-Rural, China 1964, 1982, 1987

1. Social and Economic Indicators by Province, China
2-1. Live-births, Deaths and Natural Increase by Urban/Rural Residence, China 1949-89
2-2. Crude Birth Rates, Crude Death Rates and Natural Increase Rates by Province, China 1954-90
3-1. Age Specific Birth Rates by Province, China 1949-86
3-2. Age Specific Birth Rates, China 1949-88 (2 per Thousand Female Fertility Sruvey in China, 1988)
4. Total Fertility Rates by Province, China 1949-87
5-1. Number of Live births by Birth Order in Total Live-births by Province, China 1981, 1986
5-2. Number of Women by Age and Number of Children Ever-born Alive, China 1982, 1987
6. Number of Births by Birth Order and Occupation, China 1981. 1986
7. Number of Births by Ord3 and Educational Level, China 1981, 1986
8. Deaths and Death Rates by Sex, Age and Province, China 1957, ’63, ‘75, ’78, ’81, ‘87
9. Abridged Life Table by Sex, Age and Province, China 1957, ’63, ‘75, ’78, ’81, ‘87
10. Infant Mortality Rates by Sex, China 1949-88
11. Infant Mortality Rates by Province, China 1981, 1986
12. Number of Beds and Doctors by Province and Expenditure of Culture, Education and Public health, China 1957, ’75, ’81, ’85, ‘88
13. 10 Leading Cause-Specific Death Rates by Urban-Rural, China 1957, ’63, ’75, ’80, ’84, ‘88
14. Rates of Late Marriage and Rates of Acceptance of One-child Cetificates by Province, China 1979, 1981, 1987
15. Means of Contraceptives and Rates of Practice of Contraceptives by Province, China 1981, 1987
16. Number of Migrants and Migration Rates between City, Town and Rural by Sex, China 1982-87
17-1. Number of Migrants between Regions and Percentage Distribution by Sex, China 1982-87
17-2. Number of Migrants and Migration Rates by Region and Sex, China 1982-87
18. Number of Migrants between provinces, China 1982-87
19. Percentage Distribution of Migrants by the Previous Residence and the Present Residence, China 1982-87
20. Number of Migrants and Migration Rates by Sex and Province, China 1982-87
21. Number of In-migrants and Percentage Distribution for Inter-province and Intra-province by Province, China 1982-87
22. Number of Migrants and Migration Rates by City, Town and Rural, Sex and Age, China 1982-87
23. Distribution of In-migrants by Reasons for Move by Province, China 1982-87
24. Distribution of In-migrants by Reasons for Move, Sex and Age, Beijing, China 1982-87
25. Migration Rates by Province, China 1954-87

1. Advocacy of Birth Control (December 27. 1954) by Liu Shaoqi
2. A Notice Regarding Induced Abortion and Surgical Sterilization (March 30, 1956)
3. We Must Control Fertility Properly (Digest), March 5, 1957
4. Instructions Concerning the Conscientious Advocacy of Family Planning (December 18, 1962)
5. A Notice Concerning Improvement in the Quality of Birth Control Surgery (February 25, 1978)
6. Secretaries Must Assume Leadership and All the Party Must Start Work So As to Make a Good Job of Family Planning (Digest), July 9, 1978
7. Great Importance Should Be Attached to the Family Planning Program, January 27. 1979
8. An Open Letter Concerning the Issue of Controlling Population Growth I Our Country (September 25, 1980)
9. Instructions Concerning Further Activities in Family Planning (February 9, 1982)
10. The Constitution of the People’s Republic of China (Digest), December 4, 1982
11. The Marriage Law of the People’s Republic of China (April 13, 1950)
12. People’s Republic of China Marriage Law (September 10, 1980)
13. Regulations Regarding the Household Registration of the PRC (January 9, 1958)
14. A Notice Concerning the Problem of Farmers’ Migration and Settlement in Market Towns (October 13,1984)
15. Regulations Concerning the Criteria to Differentiate Urban from Rural Areas (November 7, 1955
16. The Instructions Concerning Adjustments of the City and Town Organizational System and Reductions of the Outskirts of Cities (December 7, 1955)
17. A Report Concerning Adjustments of the Criteria of the Town Organizational system (October 9, 1984)
18. The Provisional Regulations Concerning Control over the Transient Population in Urban Area (July 13, 1984)
19-1. The Regulations of Resident Identity Card of the People’s Republic of China (September 6, 1985)
19-2. An Explanation Regarding <The Regulations of Resident Identity Card of the People’s Republic of China (Draft)> By Liu Fuzhi (June 8, 1985)
20. The Provisional Measures Regarding Premarital Medical Check-ups in a Certain Municipality (December 3, 1987)
21. The Provisional Regulations Concerning Tight Control of Family Planning over the Transient Population and Self-employed Workers in Fujian Province October 29, 1986
22. The Family Planning Regulations of Jilin Province (July 21, 1988)
23. A Report Concerning Adjustment of the Standard for the Setting up of Cities and the Criteria of Counties under Control of Municipalities (February 3, 1986)
24. Shanghai Municipal Family Planning Regulation, 1 August 1990.
25. The Instructions Concerning the Family Planning Work (Digest), April 13, 1984
26. The National Socio-Economic Development of the PRC, the Seventh Five-Yea Plan (Extract) (April 12, 1986)
27. The Compulsory Education Law of the PRC (April 12, 1986)
28. The Provisional Labor Contract System Regulations Practised by State Enterprises (July 12, 1986)
29. Rules Governing the Implementation of the Law of the PRC o the Exit and Entry of Chinese Citizens (December 26, 1986)
30. China’s Family Planning Policy by Xhao Yanpei

Population Statistics of China, Statistical Data series No.55