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

China's population policy is emerging as a key part of its economic strategy as Beijing rolls out its most wide-ranging push ...

The Asian giant is grappling with a dramatic population decline, with a fertility rate of 1.0, well below the 2.1 replacement ...

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

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

In a lawsuit that pits Zhang’s family against the Yin family, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Gordon Funt described how the opera ...

China has imposed taxes on contraceptives sold domestically starting this new year. The Chinese Ministry of Finance recently ...

The Are You Dead? app, called Sile Me in Chinese, asks users to check in daily by tapping a bright green button with a ...

Approaching 60, Zhang Xiaomei lives a retirement many people envy: dancing in the mornings, resting in the afternoons, and ...

That lesson has renewed relevance as fresh unrest shakes Iran today — and it should command close attention in Washington and Taipei. Before the Iranian revolution, the shah commanded one of the ...

BEIJING -- Births in China likely fell below 9 million for the first time in 2025, according to expert forecasts, driven ...

Behind the statistic lies 30 million lonely, frustrated lives. The story of one of them, a young man from the city of Hefei ...