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Demographic and economic changes in the Sinkiang Uighur autonomous region
Population Studies
|November 17, 2011
Abstract:
Abstract The following characteristics of the population of Sinkiang are discussed: growth, stressing the importance of the immigration of Han Chinese; age-sex ratios; marital status; ethnic composition; education; health; and urbanisation. Economic development as it affects the composition of population, especiallyindustrial, agricultural and pastoral trends are also considered. A final section deals with the geo-political and demographic implications of the Sino-Soviet dispute.
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