Public Utility Management

Population Economics and Management

Release Date: 2017-09-22

1.Basic Course Information

Course code: 151443
Course Name: Population Economics and Management
Course type: specialty course
Periods: 48
Credits: 3
Target students: Undergraduate and Graduate majoring in Economics and Public
Assessment: Examination
Preparatory Course: Economics

2.Brief Course Introduction

Population Economics and Management is a basic course for public administration professionals. The course introduces  theory of demographic development; birth rates; population change; population growth; population quality; migration; household registration system; human urbanization; population aging; population, resources & environment; population policy and other issues. By introducing the theoretical and academic frontier literature of this discipline, it allows let the students to understand the history and the present situation and development of China's population, the characteristics of China's urbanization and the impact of population  on urban economic and social development, and then recognize the various socio-demographic problems  existing in the process of China's urbanization, understand the reasons for these problems. By thinking about the population problems the course stimulates students to pay attention and study the issues related to China's population and urbanization development.