An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...
Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, the world’s second-largest economy is now grappling with one of the lowest ...
The number of first marriages in China reached 9.1723 million last year, the first time the figure fell below 10 million over ...
China’s extreme automation is a strength, but it’s also a response to the country’s most fundamental weakness: the impending ...
Beijing — China has announced its first population decline in decades as what has been the world's most populous nation ages and its birthrate plunges, posing new challenges for the slowing economy.
Chinas economy is grappling with intensifying challenges as mounting debt, persistent deflation, and an aging population ...
It wasn’t expected to happen so soon, but it has been a long time coming. Earlier this week, for the first time in six decades, official statistics revealed a dip in China’s population. At the bottom ...
BEIJING — China’s population dropped in 2023 by 2 million people — the second consecutive annual drop as births fell and deaths increased after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the government ...
China's economic growth projected to stall on slowed urban-to-rural migration and a rapidly aging population. Low birth rates, low immigration and longer life spans all contribute to an increase in ...
When the demise of the People’s Republic of China occurs — perhaps soon and perhaps many decades from now — the story will be not of Western aggression, but of national suicide. The obvious catalyst ...
Credit: Illustration by Catherine Putz. The news that China’s population shrank in 2022 caused a sensation. Despite it being a relatively modest drop of around 850,000 (or a loss of 0.6 per thousand), ...
BEIJING: The good news is that people in China are living longer, with latest statistics showing that the average life expectancy reached 79 years old in 2024 - an increase of 0.4 years from 2023. The ...