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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says his country "remain deeply concerned about PRC human rights violations", after a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. IMAGES
India will overtake China as the world's most populous country this week, hitting almost 1.43 billion people, the United Nations says. "India is projected to overtake China as the world's most populous country during the current month - April of 2023," says John Wilmoth, Director, Population Division, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. "Projections indicate that the size of the Chinese population could drop below 1 billion before the end of the century. In India, by contrast the population is expected to continue growing for several decades," he adds. SOUNDBITE
The United States voices horror at new files on incarceration of China's Uyghur minority. "We are appalled by the reports and the jarring images," State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Shanghai/Beijing, May 27 (EFE/EPA).- May 27 (EFE).- The profits of China's main industrial companies increased 106.1 percent year-on-year in the first four months of the year, according to official data published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Thursday.The agency points again to the base effect – China was hit worst by the pandemic during the first months of 2020 – and offers an alternative data, that the average growth rate over the past two years sits at 22.3 percent.In April alone, Chinese industrial companies earned 57 percent more year-on-year, although this is a lower growth rate by 35.3 percentage points than in March. (Camera: ARCHIVE). ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SHOWS PEOPLE WALKING TROUGH A SUPERMARKET, STREETS AND A SHOPPING MALL IN SHANGHAI AND BEIJING, CHINA.
Beijing, May 11 (EFE/EPA).- China's population grew by 5.38 percent in the last 10 years to reach 1.4 billion inhabitants, the National Bureau of Statistics announced on Tuesday.The total number of inhabitants, according to the 2020 census, the first since 2010, is 1.4 billion against the 1.3 billion recorded in the 2010 census.The latest census reflects an average annual growth of 0.53 percent in the last decade compared to 0.57 percent in the 2000-2010 period and 1.07 percent between 1990 and 2000. (Camera: WU HONG).B-ROLL OF CHILDREN IN BEIJING, CHINA.