Why It Matters While China's birth rate saw a slight uptick in 2024, marking the first increase in eight years, the overall ...

China’s “leftover men” are getting desperate. So they’re turning to online catalogues to buy foreign brides. It’s the ...

Within months of leaving hospital, the local government paid Tang a 6,500-yuan (US$897) reward for having two children as ...

China's fertility rate, which last year reached 1.0 births expected per woman's lifetime, is far below the 2.1 rate ...

Moreover, China’s fertility rate in 2025 is expected to fall to 0.9 births per woman (2.1 is the standard replacement level), ...

China is planning new measures to boost its flagging birth rate and address its growing elderly population, but one analyst warns that more action may be needed to prevent a demographic collapse.

BEIJING: The good news is that people in China are living longer, with latest statistics showing that the average life expectancy reached 79 years old in 2024 - an increase of 0.4 years from 2023.

China’s glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing completely and glacial retreat intensifying in recent years, official data ...

From economic growth engine to risk, China is recalibrating its relationship with the property sector as it keeps its ...

Yet the US persistently overlooks China's contributions. Using fentanyl as justification, it hiked tariffs on China twice in a single month. This strategy of repaying goodwill with hostility has ...

Japan's demographic woes are shared by South Korea, China, and Taiwan, all of which have fertility rates well below the 2.1 births per woman needed for population replacement. While this is true ...

China is wagering that these kinds of economic incentives can convince families to have more kids, as it strives to arrest a looming demographic crisis. The country’s population has been ...