Plummeting birth and marriage rates and a rising proportion of elderly are long-term concerns for the country with the world's second-largest population.

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

The country's shrinking population is a grim omen for the rest of the world China's population is shrinking. While the massive country is still home to 1.4 billion people — nearly one out of ...

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According to the 2023 National Aging Development Bulletin released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Aging Office on October 12, ...

HONG KONG, March 5 (Reuters) - China will "actively" respond to population aging with policies for its rapidly growing elderly and its young people, including providing childcare subsidies and ...

But China has many other issues to deal with. There’s falling property prices, a shrinking population, and complaints from entrepreneurs about overbearing government. There’s no one better placed to ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

Nanchang, the capital of East China's Jiangxi province, experienced a population increase of 102,200 residents last year, ...

TAIPEI--China’s population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous nation, which ...