An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...

China’s extreme automation is a strength, but it’s also a response to the country’s most fundamental weakness: the impending ...

The decline in China's population last year is likely to have exceeded the historic fall recorded in 2022, but the overall downward trend in the next three decades will be mild, a senior demographer ...

China’s real-estate bust left behind tens of millions of empty housing units. Now that historic glut of unoccupied property is colliding with China’s shrinking population, leaving cities stuck with ...

China’s population dynamics remain a critical challenge for its economic and social stability. Despite a modest rise in births in 2024, the nation’s population shrank for the third consecutive year, ...

China's population contracted for the third year in a row in 2024 despite an uptick in births. Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign Ministry by email with a request for comment. Xi Jinping's ...

China’s population continued to decline last year—though births edged up for the first time in eight years—falling for a third straight year as deaths outpaced births. China had seen birth numbers ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The biggest challenge China faces right now isn’t the Trump ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China’s population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous nation, ...

BEIJING (AP) — Starting next year, China will raise its retirement age for workers, which is now among the youngest in the world’s major economies, in an effort to address its shrinking population and ...