City to keep population under 25m
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THE Shanghai government has set a target to keep the city’s population under 25 million by 2020, Mayor Yang Xiong told the Shanghai People’s Congress yesterday.
“We will strictly control population growth through multiple policy measures,” he said while presenting the government work report on the opening day of the annual legislative session, which closes on Friday.
According to official figures released earlier, Shanghai had 24.3 million residents at the end of 2014, including registered locals and migrants who had been in the city for six months or more.
“The city government can take several measures, such as standardizing employment, demolishing illegal residential buildings and cracking down on group rentals to control the migrant population,” said Wang Jianping, director of the Shanghai Statistics Bureau.
The 25 million target was calculated after assessing the city’s resources and layout, he said.
The population of Shanghai has grown by more than 8 million since 2000. Yang warned earlier that if left unchecked, the total could rise to 26.5 million by the end of 2020.
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