China's State Statistical Bureau, working in coordination with related departments in line with the directives of the Government Administration Council of the Central People's Government of the PRC and in the light of the country's national election, carried out its first national population census. The reference time of the census was zero hour July 1, 1953. Over 2.5 million people worked in it.
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A 1984 study studied this question.