STUDY OF DEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENTIATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA AND ITS REGIONS IN THE XXI CENTURY
The article is devoted to an actual problem of modern rapidly developing China - strengthening the internal unevenness of demographic development. Such unevenness appears in the form of significant differences between the regions in the trends of natural reproduction of the population and internal migration. As the basis of China’s internal demographic differentiation at the current stage, the authors examine the development of market economy, its sustainable growth inevitably leads to inequalities in socio-economic status of various cities, provinces and regions. Another reason, closely related to the first, is the policy of birth control «One family - one child», which changed radically the course of China’s demographic development. The purpose of this study is to determine the conditions and extent of demographic differentiation of Chinese regions in the context of China’s economic development, to determine the place and role of each city, province and region in China’s demographic and economic map, to identify connections between the most important economic and demographic parameters. Being in the study authors characterize the conditions of the creation and development of demographic differentiation in China, analyze indicators of population growth for the China’s regions for 2000-2014 years, and study the characteristics and reasons for the differences in the levels of natural and migration growth of China’s provinces.