Tianjin’s municipal development and reform commission published a city-level Tianjin Population High-Quality Development 15th Five-Year Plan, targeting by 2030 a resident population of about 13.7 million and a net increase of 700,000 in hukou population. The plan sets a health literacy target of 46% and a life-expectancy target of 83.2 years, aims to keep the urbanization rate above 86% and to stabilise the surveyed urban unemployment rate, and calls for a substantial expansion in supply of affo

Tianjin’s municipal development and reform commission published a city-level Tianjin Population High-Quality Development 15th Five-Year Plan, targeting by 2030 a resident population of about 13.7 million and a net increase of 700,000 in hukou population. The plan sets a health literacy target of 46% and a life-expectancy target of 83.2 years, aims to keep the urbanization rate above 86% and to stabilise the surveyed urban unemployment rate, and calls for a substantial expansion in supply of affordable childcare and nursing-care eldercare beds to raise living standards.