On a certain date, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, participated in the registration for the Seventh National Population Census at Zhongnanhai in Beijing. This is Xi Jinping responding to the census taker's inquiries. Photo by reporter Ju Peng, Xinhua News Agency.

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From January 24th to 25th, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, conducted an inspection in Hubei Province. On the morning of the 24th, Xi Jinping visited the home of villager Xiong Chenglong in Siyi Village, Panjiayuan Town, Jiayu County, Xianning City, where he sat down with the family to chat. Photo by Yan Yan/Xinhua News Agency.

The article emphasizes that population development is a major issue related to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. With the economic and social development and changes in the age structure of the population, China has generally shifted from a stage of population growth to a stage of population decline. The population development shows obvious trend-like characteristics such as fewer children, aging, and regional population growth and decline differentiation. Advancing the modernization of China faces new demographic environments and conditions. For the new situation of population development in China, it is necessary to fully understand and correctly view it.

The article emphasizes the need to focus on the strategic arrangements for building a strong nation and achieving national rejuvenation, improve the population development strategy in the new era, understand, adapt to, and lead the new normal of population development, strive to enhance the overall quality of the population, and work to maintain an appropriate fertility level and population size. It is essential to accelerate the shaping of a modern human resources that is of high quality, sufficient in quantity, optimized in structure, and reasonably distributed, in order to support the Chinese path to modernization with high-quality population development. The following principles should be adhered to: 1. Uphold the principle of promoting high-quality economic and social development through high-quality population development. 2. Uphold the principle of planning population issues with a systematic approach. 3. Uphold the principle of driving high-quality population development through reform and innovation. 4. Uphold the principle of promoting the comprehensive development of individuals and the common prosperity of all people.

The article proposes key tasks to support the Chinese-style modernization with high-quality population development. Firstly, deepen the reform and innovation in education and health, comprehensively enhance the overall quality of the population. Secondly, establish and improve the fertility support policy system, promote long-term balanced population development. Thirdly, strengthen the development and utilization of human resources, increase the effective supply of labor force across society. Fourthly, implement the national strategy for actively addressing population aging, striving to achieve old-age care, employment for the elderly, and happiness in old age. Fifthly, better coordinate the relationship between population and the economy, society, resources, and the environment, safeguarding population security.