Early last year, this quiet city in central China started offering serious cash incentives for couples to have more children, ...

Hi it’s Karoline in Singapore. Drastically low birth rates are a problem many Asian countries share, but few have seen a more ...

China’s fertility rate has been less than half ... subsidies — and a heavy dose of birth-positive propaganda from local officials. The support starts with coverage for prenatal tests.

But given the pace of population decline and ageing in China, the impact of the fast-paced, expensive city life on birth rates should be treated with more urgency by Beijing, demographers say.

The trend among Chinese women of postponing or eschewing marriage will undermine Beijing’s efforts to boost falling birth rates, says Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The national birth rate for 2022 fell to a record low, and the country’s worsening demographic crisis has far-reaching effects on economic growth. Deaths outnumbered births in China as its ...

The steep decline in girl birth rates in China is pushing the "remaining" bachelors to... buy brides from abroad, including ...

A 27-year-old woman in southern China has made history as the fastest person in the country to reunite with her biological ...

year-old adoptee becomes country's fastest ever such person to find biological family, breaks down in tears during video link ...

According to China’s 2020 census, 61% of babies are born to women aged 20 to 30. But the number of women in this cohort ...