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Xiujian Peng, Senior Research Fellow, Victoria University

China's population is about to shrink for the first time since the great famine struck 60 years ago. Here's what it means for the world

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The world’s biggest nation is about to shrink.

China accounts for more than one sixth of the world’s population.

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