| China Population and Development
Research Center traces its origins back to the 1980s, when the
Chinese Government realized the importance of population information
work and made it an important component in the country's population
and family plan ning programs. To initiate this work, the Government,
with financial assistance from the United Nations Population
Fund (UNFPA), established the China Population Information Center
(CIPC) in May 1980. Attached to the State Family Planning Commission,
it w as renamed the China Population and Development Research
Center (CPDRC) in 1989.
The central tasks of the Center are to carry out the population
and family planning researches, especially focus the policy-counseling
research on population and development, edit and publish the
related publications and other types of information prod uctions,
collect, package and disseminate population and family planning
information, and create favorable conditions to develop education
and training to make the Center gain greater achievements
and train more competent personnel. The Center will also m
ake full use of its research findings and professional advantages
to deliver paid services to society.
At present and in a period of time, policy-counseling research
should focus on the research subjects which will exert an
overall, strategic and comprehensive influence on population
and family planning programs, including research on the population
pol icy, population projection, balanced population and socioeconomic
development, management of the family planning program and
the operational mechanism, and experiences from population
and family planning programs in other countries. Research
for the Ninth Five-year Plan period (1996-2000) will center
on the mid- and long-term population program, the guiding
thinking for the family planning program and the "Two
transitions"* for family planning implementation, reproductive
health, population and sustainabl e development.
CPIRC produces following publications: China Population Today,
China Family Planning Yearbook, Population and Family Planning,
Population Abstracts and China Population Data Sheet.
CPIRC consists of seven divisions, they are Director's Division,
Population Information Research Division, Population Research
Division, Publications Division, Library, Liaison Department
and Administrative Division. It has 102 staff members and
worker s, of which 65 are professionals in the fields of medicine,
demography, economics, foreign languages, Chinese literature,
computer science, library science and information science.
CPIRC is a leading unit of the China Population Information
Network (CHINA POPIN), member of Asia and the Pacific POPIN
and member of the Global POPIN. And it maintains extensive
contacts and cooperation with demographic and population information
circles of the world.
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