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

With a plummeting birth rate and a rapidly aging population, China faces a demographic crisis. The city of Tianmen is an ...

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 ...

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.

told local governments to direct resources towards fixing China’s population crisis and spread respect for childbearing and marriages "at the right age." Last year saw a slight rise in births ...

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 ...