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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/slight-growth-in-chinas-population.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="China's population grew to 1.34 billion people last year (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-slight-growth-in-chinas-population.jpg" alt="China's population grew to 1.34 billion people last year (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>China&#8217;s population grew to 1.34 billion people last year, the National Bureau of Statistics has announced, marking a modest jump for a massive population and leading experts to suggest China may relax its generation-old one-child policy.</p>
<p>The figure, which is preliminary and based on a sample survey, shows China added about 6.3 million people last year, up from 1.3347 billion at the end of 2009.</p>
<p>A more accurate figure is expected to be released within the next few months after the government tallies the results of its 2010 census, the first in 10 years.</p>
<p>The number indicates a slower rate of growth than the previous year and experts said the decline in growth could help convince policy makers to relax the government&#8217;s strict family planning limits. Since 1981, the government has limited families in cities to one child and rural parents to two to control its population. </p>
<p>&#8220;China&#8217;s population now is mainly growing because people are living longer, not because people are having lots of babies,&#8221; Cai Yong, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, and an expert on China&#8217;s population, said.</p>
<p>Mr Cai said the figure reported on the National Bureau of Statistics website was not surprising but fell on the low end of the government&#8217;s expectations.</p>
<p>It could embolden policy makers to experiment with loosening the family planning policy to allow couples in a handful of provinces to have two children if they want, he said.</p>
<p>China&#8217;s population growth has been contracting since 1987 and the US Census Bureau has projected that China&#8217;s population will peak at slightly less than 1.4 billion in 2026, with India overtaking China as the world&#8217;s most populous nation in 2025.</p>
<p>Mr Cai said allowing more births now would help the country cope with looking after its large and growing elderly population.</p>
<p>&#8220;To have a stable society, you better start now, to think ahead of time because it takes 20 to 30 years to have another generation come down the line,&#8221; he said.</p>
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