The increase and decrease of China's historical population is inseparable from regime change and war, and behind every population increase in history is a prosperous world, and at the same time, behind every population decline is war in the charcoal of life. In the late stage of feudal society, population growth has become a major trend of historical development, especially in the Qing Dynasty, the population size has reached a very high height, and it is difficult for any previous dynasty to match it.
Although the Qing Dynasty only lasted more than 200 years, it was not too long. But in the past two hundred years, there have been very few wars, and our country is geographically located in the eastern part of Eurasia and on the western shore of the Pacific Ocean. The east-west span is very large, with an east-west distance of 5200 km and a north-south distance of 5500 km. The Yellow River is the birthplace of the Chinese nation, flowing through nine provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong, and is also the most densely populated place. The Yangtze River Basin is also the most densely populated place.
First, fight corruption effectively. The Qing government severely punished all kinds of illegal acts of concealing the population or changing the attributes of the population without authorization (such as turning the living into dead people and turning the long-term resident population into floating populations), rewarding and punishing people in population statistics, and at the same time commending and rewarding those who made outstanding contributions in the field of population and family planning.
Second, encourage reproduction. After Shunzhi succeeded to the throne, he proposed to promote incentives to encourage childbearing during the Reign of Emperor Wen of Han, specifically rewarding sheep, wine, money, or tax reductions according to the number and gender of the population born, but it was shelved because it was hindered by conservative forces such as Soni, Aobai, Xiaozhuang and others.