FILE PHOTO: Wu Tingting (L) pushes a stroller carrying her one-year-old daughter, as she shops for morning groceries in a residential suburb of Zhuhai, close to the Pearl River, in southern China October 30, 2015. REUTERS/James Pomfret
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's population is set to reach a peak of 1.442 billion in 2029 and start a long period of "unstoppable" decline in 2030, government scholars said in a research report published on Friday.
The world's most populous country must now draw up policies to try to cope with a declining labour force and a rapidly ageing population, according to the summary of the latest edition of the "Green Book of Population and Labor" published by the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).
