Three Chinese economists argue rigid growth target causes local governments to misallocate resources and take on excessive debt The way the central government sets and then struggles to meet annual ...

The regions that reported population growth are the Xinjiang Uygur and Xizang autonomous regions, and Shaanxi province in western China; Zhejiang, Anhui and Fujian provinces in the east ...

But the marriage crisis will greatly undermine these ... Salient factors include the steady decline in China’s childbearing-age population; changes in lifestyle; the lingering effects of the ...

While many nations are scrambling to strike tariff deals with Trump, China is standing up to him, hoping to turn “crisis into opportunity.” Within 48 hours of Trump’s market-hammering ...

The world's fourth-largest economy also faces the twin threats of a steady decline in marriages and a rising proportion of elderly people. Nearly 30 percent of Japanese citizens are now 65 or older.

China, plagued with famine six or seven decades ago, is facing an obesity crisis, prompting warnings that more than 65 per cent of adults could be overweight or obese by 2030. Beijing is racing ...

But the marriage crisis will greatly undermine these ... Salient factors include the steady decline in China’s childbearing-age population; changes in lifestyle; the lingering effects of the ...

But the marriage crisis will greatly undermine these ... Salient factors include the steady decline in China's childbearing-age population; changes in lifestyle; the lingering effects of the ...

Liu Xin, a 29-year-old delivery driver in Chengdu, China, zigzags through lunchtime traffic six days a week. One thing that’s never in his budget? The 1,400 yuan ($195) monthly contribution to ...

Once one of the country’s biggest growth drivers, China’s property market has been ... that the government’s measures to end the crisis had been working to reinvigorate the market, but ...