According to the census, China has 1,430,695 immigrants, dividing between 845,697 foreign nationals and 584,998 residents of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

[16] On November 2, 2020, Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping answered census workers' questions in Beijing.

[18] On April 27, 2021, the Financial Times reported that according to some sources who know the data of the seventh census, Chinese population in 2020 did not meet 1.4 billion.

[23] On April 28, 2021, Bloomberg News, quoting the Chinese state media outlet the Global Times, reported that it is unlikely there would be a drop in the total population in the 2020 census, citing a comment by Lu Jiehua, a professor at Peking University.

[24] In May 2021, the National Bureau of Statistics of China released a report revising the data for the previous 10 years before the 2020 census.