China Conduct 7th Tender

The State Council released a circular on Nov 8 announcing the seventh national census in 2020. The census will investigate the size structure and distribution of Chinas population the condition of urban and rural housing and other things in order to provide scientific and accurate statistics support for improving population development strategy and policy promoting balanced population growth in the long term formulating scientific plans for national economic and social development and achieving high-quality economic development.Topics to be surveyed for household members will include name ID number gender age ethnicity education level and marital status among others and the standard time for the census will be 0000 am on Nov 1 2020 the circular said. In addition the circular decided to conduct the census electronically by exploring the use of smartphones to collect data and promote the application of big data to improve the efficiency of data collection and processing.Data collecting should be in accordance with the law and a system of accountability will be established to ensure the quality of the data. A leading group on the seventh national census will be established to be led by Vice-Premier Han Zheng with its office located in the National Bureau of Statistics according to the circular.