新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/06/30

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神奇印度开挂国度，人口即将超过中国

Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Jingnan

In seven years' time, India's population is expected to surpass that of China's and is projected to reach 1.5 billion in 2030.Meanwhile, the population of China is expected to slowly decline after 2030.That was according to a recent report by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Currently, China and India, the two most populous¹ countries of the world, have populations of 1.4 billion and 1.3 billion respectively. So what is behind the demographic shifts experienced by these two Asian population giants, how can the problems that come with these demographic specifics be better managed? And what challenges will the world face in light of current demographic developments around the globe?

For more on this, CRI'Jingnan is now joined in the studio by Prof.Du Peng,Institute of Gerontology, Renmin University;Zheng zhenzhen, Professor of Population and Labor² Economics of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;on the line we have Ms. Priyanka Pandit, from Centre for East Asian Studies School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India;also Visiting fellow with the Chongyang Financial Institute at Renmin University, China