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Chinese
Female Population
China
carried out its fifth national population census on November
1, 2000. According to the result published in March of the
following year, China had a male population of 653.55 million
and a female population of 612.28 million in its 31 mainland
provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and in the army,
accounting for 51.63 percent and 48.37 percent of the total
respectively.
Chapter
One Legal Environment for the Development of Chinese Women
Gender
Equality in the Constitution
China's
policy of gender equality and protection of women was ensured
in the Common Program (a provisional institution) adopted
at the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference (CPPCC) convened in Beijing in September
of 1949. The Common Program stipulates: "The People's
Republic of China shall abolish the feudal system which holds
women in bondage. Women shall enjoy equal rights with men
in political, economic, cultural, educational and social life.
Freedom of marriage for men and women shall be instigated."
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