BEIJING (Reuters) – Efforts should be made to maintain a moderate fertility level and population size in China which is facing a population decrease, state news agency Xinhua cited President Xi Jinping as saying in an article.

In the article published in a journal for the Chinese Communist Party, Xi said demographic statistics need to be strengthened with dynamic monitoring of the population.

(Reporting by Beijing newsroom and Liz Lee; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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