Elderly people rest at a park on a summer day in Beijing HONG KONG (Reuters) -China's population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024, with the number of deaths outpacing a slight increase in ...
Long seen in the West as a byword for the Chinese Communist Party’s heavy-handedness, the one-child policy became a trope for Chinese authoritarianism. While the policy was officially scrapped in 2015 ...
This forces Chinese manufacturers to innovate, but it also leads to price wars, losses and bad debt — and that’s becoming a ...
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Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. China’s birth rate is falling below replacement ...
China, the world’s second-largest economy, is facing a demographics crisis. Its population fell in 2024 for the third straight year and is projected to halve by the end of the century, while marriages ...
People aged 65 and older already make up about 15 percent of its 1.4 billion citizens, according to United Nations data.
Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Within two decades, China’s retirement-age population is projected to surpass the ...
China reported remarkable economic growth of 5.4 percent in the first quarter of 2025. Its growth is fascinating, since it far outstripped all large economies. It is also noteworthy because it comes ...
The construction boom that accompanied China's rapid economic rise sparked a wave of large-scale residential and commercial projects across the country. This gave rise to vast, under-inhabited ...