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 ...

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

China’s “leftover men” are getting desperate. So they’re turning to online catalogues to buy foreign brides. It’s the inevitable outcome of decades of the Communist Party’s strictly enforced one-child ...

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 ...

The world's second-largest population has been trending downward amid the rising cost-of-living and changing cultural attitudes among the younger population.

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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