Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, fertility rates have not bounced back. NPR speaks with journalist Cindy Yu ...

HONG KONG, Jan 16 () - China's population policy is emerging as a key part of its economic strategy as Beijing rolls out its ...

The death of a former head of China's one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned ...

A long-standing preference for sons created one of the world’s starkest gender imbalances, spawning desperate bachelors and ...

January 1 marked a decade since China repealed its one-child policy. Just ten days before, Peng Peiyun, who long oversaw the often-brutal enforcement of China’s fami ...

Despite a series of incentives aimed at encouraging couples to have more children, China's population has continued to fall.

More young people have either sworn against having children at all or are putting it off for the next few years. Read more at ...

Official figures show China’s population has shrunk for three consecutive years, with about 9.54 million babies born in 2024.

No other animal is as symbolic of the fight for conservation as the giant panda. Since a dangerous flirtation with extinction, panda populations have been nursed back to the brink by watchful ...

China faces a demographic crisis ten years after ending its one-child policy. Birth rates remain low, and the population is aging rapidly. Despite incentives, government attempts to boost births, ...

The history of the 35-year one-child policy highlights a fatal flaw in Chinese governance, for which the country is paying a ...