While China's birth rate saw a slight uptick in 2024, marking the first increase in eight years, the overall population declined for a third consecutive year. The shift, largely attributed to the end ...

The trend among Chinese women of postponing or eschewing marriage will undermine Beijing’s efforts to boost falling birth rates, says Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

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

New marriages in China reportedly plummeted by one-fifth last year, implying that the official number of births will likely fall from 9.54 million in 2024 to 7.3- 7.8 million in 2025. Thus, while ...

China’s leaders are doubling down on winter tourism, “debut markets” and the silver economy to drive consumption and boost ...

China's migrant worker population hovers around 300 million but work-relief job creation covers just 1 per cent of that To ...

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.

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So alarming is China’s rapidly falling fertility rate that Chinese Premier Li Qiang recently announced new policies to boost births. But with marriages having plummeted over the past decade and half, ...