During 2019–2020, Energy Foundation China supported the School of Architecture, Tsinghua university to predict China’s future population and spatial distribution, key factors influencing the country’s urbanization process. Their findings were released in this report in October 2020.

The report expounds the researchers’ prediction methods applied to the existing population database and their estimations of China’s future population distribution in different scales and at provincial and county levels.

The report also visualizes future population distribution in multiple possible scenarios. Such data will lay a good foundation for research regarding topics such as urban planning, low carbon cities, and environmental protection.