>>510762581eh, ive seen it here and there on vids, and it be casually mentioned even by some bigger online media heads, but yeah no one seems to care or take it seriously.
reason i think its worth noting is because china kinda does lie about alot, aswell as even to this day alot of their country is still very under developed backwaters they dont pay a whole ton of attention to. maybe they are, maybe they arent, but it certainly wouldn't be a shock to find out they were, even unintentionally.
they're facing population collapse like nearly everyone else regardless so either way that numbers not holding.