In Nanjing, China’s eastern Jiangsu Province, 24-year-old Heng Mengyu and two business partners provide companionship, ...

China is the world's most populous country.' Many people likely have a strong image of this. However, the title of the ...

China is rapidly getting older. Three decades ago, only 5 percent of the population was over 65; today, 123 million people, or 9 percent of the population, are over this age. A report released by a ...

Beijing’s one-child policy, plus the same social forces that have dragged East Asian fertility to historic lows, have produced below-replacement birth rates for three decades in China—draining the ...

China’s pension dilemma involves not only a shrinking workforce but also persistent inequality between urban residents and rural migrants. On October 23, 2025, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th ...

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In a recent study from Peking University Health Science Center, doctoral student Kang Ning and colleagues found that air pollution reductions alone cannot offset the impact of rapid population aging ...

China’s declining fertility rate is shaped by a combination of structural and cultural factors. The one-child policy left a long-term legacy, but rising living costs, urbanization, and changing values ...

China’s leaders have known for some time that they have a demographics problem, with their concern growing at the threat to future prosperity and dynamism. The population decline is set to accelerate, ...

Demography may not be destiny, but gradually—and unforgivingly—it does alter the realm of the possible in the world arena. One of the most important geostrategic consequences of current global ...