China Census Highlights Growing Rights Awareness

China Census Highlights Growing Rights Awareness
BEIJING – China’s census-takers counted more than 1.3 billion people already face a daunting task, and it’s getting difficult for another update once every decade.
After years of reforms that have reduced government involvement once prevalent in the lives of most people, some Chinese proved reluctant to give up personal information and harboring doubts about what the Government planned to do with their information.
“Side by side with China’s development and public awareness of legal and personal rights and privacy has been increased,” said Ji Lin, executive vice mayor of Beijing, which oversees the Census Bureau in the capital.
“When we were little, it was not this way, if you want to check the police hukous (Chinese household registration documents), they are just walking in the road with one. You can not do that anymore,” he said.
Set accounting for a population of more than four times the size of the United States in the period from November 1 to 10 Currently, the census of volunteers going door to door in all parts of China, with a preliminary survey on the number of people living in each house and the registration numbers of the cell phone so that workers can get in touch when the census begins officially.
Take an accurate census in China, a difficult task with millions of migrant workers who left their addresses in the official countryside in search of better opportunities in cities.