China’s cities and villages stand eerily empty; where has China’s population gone?

expose-news.com ^ | May 8, 2025 | Rhoda Wilson

[ransomnote]

China’s population has gone into reverse, with deaths overtaking births and the total population decreasing by 1.5 million between 2021 and 2025.

The country’s birth rate has dropped to one child per woman and researchers predict the population will halve by the end of the century to 525 million.  But with China’s cities standing empty, is that the whole story?

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A couple of weeks ago, Reinette Senum highlighted China’s vanishing population. “China’s population has mysteriously and dramatically collapsed. Cities and villages stand eerily empty – streets, malls, homes and stores abandoned. What happened?” she asked and shared the video below.

The description under the video on YouTube states: “In recent times, netizens on Chinese social platforms have pointed out that the number of people in shopping malls and on the streets has obviously decreased, and everywhere is deserted. Only in hospitals are there many people, and many crematoriums are packed with people. Some netizens said that it felt like many people around them had died, including many young people.

“People in mainland China believe that the authorities’ forced vaccination has led to the deaths of a large number of young and middle-aged people, among which the sudden death of people born in the 1980s has become the norm.”

In the following, Niall McCrae offers his thoughts on China’s population decline.

More at the link: https://expose-news.com/2025/05/08/chinas-cities-and-villages-stand-eerily-empty/

 

[pepsionice]

Vast majority had jobs cancelled...packed-up and went back to farming villages where they grew up. Not really a recent thing....it was already being noticed in early spring 2024.

I might also note...the Census number hyped-up...that might not even be correct. Some are suggesting that the true people count is closer to 600-million.

[fr_freak]

What was the deal early on when the Covid 19 thing started when we saw falling dead on the streets? We never saw that here. Was it propaganda to get people in fear?

Absolutely. There is no other logical explanation for either the silly Hollywood B movie level of those Youtube video, nor the fact that those videos made it out of communist China past their vaunted national firewall. There is also the fact that 90% of what the governments of the West said about COVID was pure lies. Why would they do that if they thought the Chinese stuff was true?

[sockmonkey]

This is such BS. Much like in my town in Texas, younger people have left the farmstead in pursuit of jobs and $$$ in the cities.
The piece credits See More Rocks for alerting her to this info, but I have no idea who/what See More Rocks is.

[hillarys cankles]

Maybe those videos of people dying in the streets during COVID were real?

[quantim]

 "Are the cities empty? No, they aren’t"

What about the tens of millions of housing units in China in the ghost cities?

[Fai Mao]

Overbuilding is not the same thing. They built without doing the homework. The population has begun to decline but it hasn’t yet collapsed (it may) and real estate pri es are falling,

Malls all over the world are empty.

[quantim]

Wasn’t much of this construction taking place when China’s ‘one-child policy’ was taking place - and most of the abortions taking place were female? The commies running China did not think this through. What a mess to clean up and the construction was shoddy on top of it. 50-60 million unnecessary units reeks of corruption.

[Fai Mao]

Exactly

Plus lose banking rules.

[Kudsman]

What a shame. /s

[spincaster]

They are all spread across the world ,like a flu.

[gunnut]

Cheap big bags of rice.

[Omnivore-Dan]

So what? Do we care that our enemy is losing population? We need to get manufacturing back to the U.S.A. and the hell with China. China’s problems are caused by the CCP who want to rule the world. Screw them. Without their huge population, they are nothing, so I say this is good news.

[desertsolitaire]

Didn’t the Chinese have their own version of the Covid Vax, different from the West’s?
Or were they all the same MRNA type world wide?

[Nervous Tick]

>> “Ow, my BACK!” will be the battle cry.

ROFL! I can relate.

[Brian Griffin]

Many Asians live in extended family households.

Costco’s huge packages are not too big for extended family households.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Some are suggesting that the true people count is closer to 600-million.

Interesting idea... all their other “national numbers” are dodgy by design, so why not their population count?

[Brian Griffin]

I’ve been at Walmart quite often recently.

Whole departments are getting remerchandised. This is probably because Walmart is changing suppliers.

A supplier in India might soon be able to offer pricing a Chinese supplier can’t.

[Brian Griffin]

Trump, with a great deal of help from Xi, might have sent China into a downward economic spiral.

Chinese families seeing income decline by 20% might cut their spending by even more.

[Fireone]

Half of the country’s young people are going to college in the USA, probably on our dime.

[UnwashedPeasant]

China should import Muslim hyper-breeders like everyone else does.