Human is a crucial factor responsible for local and large scale environmental
change and is a key factor in rural management. Accurate simulating and
predicting population change and its spatial distribution is of great interests to
environmental scientists as well as social scientists. In this paper, we
introduced the development of a spatial-explicit agent-based population model
for China based on a prototype from SVERIGE model. The model was used to
predict the population in China. The validation result shows that agent-based
model performances well in population prediction in China.