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The National Bureau of Statistics of China in Beijing (NBSC) successfully concluded China's 6th National Census Project earlier this year, with the help of 1,700 fi-Series large-volume document scanners and Chinese OCR software - both supplied by the Fujitsu Group.
China has the largest population in the world and currently boasts the world's second largest GDP. This project was highly visible, both in China and abroad, as it took on the extremely difficult task of surveying the country's approximately 1 .3 billion residents in order to obtain accurate demographic statistics and information on household lifestyles.
Every ten years the government of...