The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) conducted its Seventh National Population Census (hereinafter referred to as the Census) using 00:00 hours of Nov. 1, 2020, as the reference time. Although an official government report of the census reveals an increase in China’s population, the CCP hastily launched the “three-child policy” because its economic growth, which is “stable with a growing momentum,” as claimed by the state-owned People’s Daily in May, is actually no match for the current fertility crisis in China. An unnamed senior official from the CCP Health and Family Planning Commission revealed three sets of data during an interview with the CCP mouthpiece Xinhua news agency on May 31. The first set of data shows that China has recorded consecutive decreases in the number of registered marriages. “There has been a decrease of 40 percent from 13 million registered marriages in 2013 to 8.13 million in 2020,” according to …