BEIJING: The first time a government worker encouraged Yumi Yang to have a baby, she thought little of it. She and her husband were registering their marriage at a local …
In a bid to address a shrinking population and an ageing society, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) is intensifying efforts to encourage marriage and childbirth at younger ages. At the …
China ended its strict “one-child policy”, imposed in the 1980s amid overpopulation fears, in 2016 Beijing: China’s population decline accelerated in 2023, official data showed Wednesday, extending a downward streak …