The impact on China’s long-term growth rate could imperil Beijing’s mission to become a global power to rival or replace the ...

In 2022, China for the first time in 20 years didn't have a woman among the 24 members of its Politburo or the seven members ...

China's central government made waves this week over its plan to offer parents a cash subsidy of up to $1,500 per child. The measure—the first of its kind to be applied nationwide—follows a flurry of ...

After the relative success of China’s first five-year plan (1953-1957), which increased industrialisation through Soviet-style investment in state-owned factories producing goods such as tractors, ...

In one generation, Chinese families have been told to bear fewer children, then one, then two and now three. But shifting ...

China is planning to include new measures to encourage more births and address its rapidly ageing population as part of its new 2021-2025 "five-year plan", state media reported on Monday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called for greater representation for women in politics and government at a global ...

The new visa is designed to attract top global STEM talent but has sparked fierce backlash, with critics warning it could ...

Long seen in the West as a byword for the Chinese Communist Party’s heavy-handedness, the one-child policy became a trope for Chinese authoritarianism. While the policy was officially scrapped in 2015 ...