[Hong Kong company registration]China's urban population has accounted for 52.57 percent of the country's total population by the end of 2012, up 1.3 percentage points from a year earlier, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Friday.

[Set Up Company Hong Kong]China's population stood at 1.354 billion at the end of last year, 6.69 million more than the figure at the end of 2011, said the NBS.