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January 1 marked a decade since China repealed its one-child policy.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 ...

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

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

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

History has a strange way of surprising persons as well as nations. Today China is forced to offer incentives like free childbirth expenses to be implemented in 2026. Why? Its population has been ...

China introduced a 13% tax on contraceptives while exempting childcare services as the global superpower battles sustained population decline and aging demographics.

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