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Beijing (ANTARA News / Reuters) - China plans to recruit 6.5 million people to conduct a census once a decade in the most densely populated countries in the world, the official Xinhua news agency said Sunday.

Local officials, most of whom are responsible for counting the soul before, too busy to do the census, Xinhua reported, quoting a senior official statistics.

Most of the tellers, who will work for about one to two months, collecting data between 250 to 300 people, will be the local residents in the areas they survey, said Nailin Feng, head of population and employment statistics of the National Statistics Bureau.

The previous census in 2000 showed China has a population of more than 1.29 billion. Employ specialized staff to conduct this census was meant to finance with the more significant, said Feng.