Has China completed demographic transition

In the next section the paper firstly discusses China’s current demographic transition after a brief reviewing its population changes in the past five decades and makes a tentative judgment of the completeness of the demographic transition. Then it is followed by a discussion on China’s entrance of a stage of “post-demographic transition”. Adopting the theoretical framework of the “European second demographic transition” proposed by Van de Kaa this paper studies the evolution of China’s proximate determinants of changes in family formation and fertility against to the background of domestically and internationally socio-economic political and cultural changes. Finally some conclusions are reached. (excerpt)