State media, embracing the gaming phrase “kill line,” is asserting China’s political superiority over the United States, ...

Synthetic opioid deaths fell sharply in 2023 and 2024 after a shock to the fentanyl supply. New evidence points to precursor ...

China’s urban population surpassed 943m in 2024, say official statistics, an increase of 100m in just seven years. The ...

Twenty-five-year-old Grace and her husband are set on staying child-free, resisting pressure from their parents and society ...

For one thing, demographic decline will put increasing pressure on the country’s military. Today, with more than 2 million ...

Contraceptives are now subject to a 13 percent value-added tax, while services related to childcare and marriage are exempt.

China faces a demographic crisis ten years after ending its one-child policy. Birth rates remain low, and the population is ...

Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time and the numbers for having another child just don’t add up.

China introduced a 13% tax on contraceptives while exempting childcare services as the global superpower battles sustained ...

Archive footage shows birth control education during the one-child policy era, as Beijing now rolls out tax changes aimed at ...

A newly-wed couple is pictured during a group wedding on the south square of the Shenyang Palace Museum in Shenyang, Northeast China's Liaoning province, May 22, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] The number of ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has linked child rearing with national progress, faces the challenge of slowing, if not halting, a looming demographic crunch. Newsweek reached out to the Chinese ...