The Shanghai Population and Family Planning Committee says that more than a third of the city's population will be over 60 by 2020.

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"We are trying to confirm the online rumors, " said a woman at the general office of Wuxi city's family planning committee, a department under the municipal government.

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The census taker who knocked on his door for the third time last week is also in charge of the neighborhood's family-planning committee.

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