It's a Boy as China Marks 1.3 Billionth Person

[truthpusher]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050107/hl_nm/birth_china_dc_1

It's a Boy as China Marks 1.3 Billionth Person

Fri Jan 7,11:14 AM ET Health - Reuters

By Benjamin Kang Lim

BEIJING (Reuters) - China named the first baby born at a Beijing hospital Thursday as the 1.3 billionth person of the world's most populous nation, more than two decades after a one-child policy was introduced to keep its numbers in check.

China's population exploded after the late Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong exhorted the people to multiply in the 1950s to make the country strong. But China put the brakes on growth with the tough one-child rule and is now worried about finding jobs for the masses and caring for the elderly. The baby boy was born at 12:02 a.m. at the Beijing Hospital of Gynecology and Obstetrics and weighed eight lb.

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"1.3 billion is a vast number. It will put great pressure on the economy, society, resources and the environment," the China Daily quoted Wang Guoqiang, deputy director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, as saying.

Demographers credited the government's one-child policy for delaying China's population hitting the 1.3 billion mark.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050107/hl_nm/birth_china_dc_1

[roguevalley]

1. they're damned near all boys aren't they?

[GiovanniC]

2. Looks Like the 1.3 Billionth Person Gets to Live!

Hurray!

[SKKY]

3. Jesus H. Christ! That's a shit-load of people!

[Bouncy Ball]

4. Any country with that many people that says ping-pong is its favorite

indoor sport, you KNOW is lying.

[MNBiker]

5. India Will pass China as most populous nation.

Birth rate 24.79 per 1000 people for India, Death rate 8.8 per 1000
Birth rate 16.12 per 1000 people for China, Death rate 6.7 per 1000

http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/wofact2000/fields/birth_rate.html

India Population 1.03 Billion 7/2000 now 1.06 billion 7/2004
China Population 1.26 Billion 7/2000 now 1.29 7/2004

India growth rate 1.44
China growth rate 0.57

[truthpusher]

6. If you read a bit more of the story...

...you would see that China is going to start lightening up a bit and the female child policies...I would think that the growth rate would then change some especially after about 15-20 years from now.

[morcatknits]

7. I wonder

How many baby girls had to die between the last two numbers, so that it would be a boy?
morcatknits

[Spinzonner]

8. I demand a Recount

[Vektor]

9. Well, you know there just aren't...

...enough people in this world!! It's all because of those troublesome gays!!
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