我國10年間149市人口減少

China's population grew modestly over the past decade, but nearly half its major cities lost residents due to a variety of factors, data from the latest national census showed.

我國每十年實施一次人口普查，去年實施的第七次人口普查數(shù)據(jù)顯示，雖然過去十年里我國人口總數(shù)小幅增長，但受各種因素影響，我國近半的主要城市出現(xiàn)了人口減少。

Of China's 330-plus prefecture-level cities, 149-or 44.7%-had smaller populations last year than in 2010, according to the once-a-decade census, which was conducted last year.

我國共有330多個地級行政區(qū)，其中149市的人口數(shù)量與2010年相比出現(xiàn)下降，占比44.7%。

The cities with shrinking populations were scattered across 23 of the 31 provincial-level regions on the Chinese mainland, with most of them in northeastern, central and western China.

人口下降的149市分布在23個省級行政區(qū)，主要來自東北、中部及西部。

People moving to other places to seek better-paid jobs or marriage opportunities were major reasons for population declines, along with falling birthrates, said experts.

專家稱，除了出生率下降的因素，這些城市人口減少的主要原因是：為找到更高薪工作或更好找對象而遷去別處。

The nationwide trend was most noticeable in the three northeastern provinces-Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang. More than 30 cities in the region saw their populations fall.

東北三省——遼寧、吉林和黑龍江的人口減少趨勢最為顯著，該區(qū)域內超過30個城市出現(xiàn)人口減少。