China Investigating Why Citizens 'Fear' Having Children
China's fertility rate fell for the second consecutive year in 2023 amid slowing growth and shifting cultural attitudes.
Opinion | China’s One-Child Economic Disaster
For decades Beijing enforced a one-child policy that was ghastly in the way only an authoritarian regime can achieve. The ...
China’s ‘Professional Children’ Want to Buy Less and Experience More
The lie-flat generation is choosing self-care over luxury goods and gap years over poorly paid entry-level jobs.
China’s pro-birth policies not yet enough to counter demographic crisis, expert warns
Cash subsidies for multiple children are doing little to offset China’s declining fertility rate that has far-reaching ...
China stops foreign adoptions of its children after decades
China announced it will no longer send children overseas for adoption, overturning a more than three-decade rule that was ...
China's child policies will increase its future carbon emissions, researchers say
Relaxing its restrictions on family size would make it more difficult for China to achieve its goal to be carbon neutral by ...
So, Are You Pregnant Yet? China’s In-Your-Face Push for More Babies.
The government is again trying to insert itself into women’s childbearing decisions, knocking on doors and making calls with ...
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China ends international adoption. Reactions range from shock to relief
The decision has sent shockwaves through the adoption community and angered families still in the process of adopting ...
China’s 35 million ‘leftover men’ spark foreign brides idea to tackle gender imbalance
Jingongzi, a finance influencer with more than 1.8 million followers on Douyin, said: “Southeast Asia has maintained close ...
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China launches survey to understand 'fear of having children'
Beijing is trying to encourage young couples to have children after China posted a second consecutive year of population decline in 2023. The survey aims to analyse "reluctance and fear ...
China child kidnap victim says mother’s voice in dreams helped her remember who she was
BEIJING: A woman victim at the centre of one of China’s most serious serial kidnap cases in recent years has finally had her day in court at proceedings which heard that her biological parents had ...
China Lights lantern festival extended through Nov. 2
The China Lights lantern festival has been extended. It will continue through Nov. 2 at Boerner Botanical Gardens. Tickets ...