China One Child Policy

A short clip of the US author's podcast has gone viral after industrialist Harsh Goenka shared it on X.

A woman took to Twitter to share a heartbreaking story of her mother when she was forced to send her two-month-old daughter to her relative because of the policy.

China had 1.41 billion people at the end of last year, 850,000 fewer than the end of 2021, according to data released by the National Statistics Bureau on Tuesday.

China on Tuesday announced a slew of perks aimed at encouraging families to have more babies, as birth rates hit a record low and officials warned that the population will start to shrink by 2025.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is delaying the retirement age of its government employees as the draconian one-child policy bears its long-term effects in the form of an ageing population accompanied by increased state expenditure on pensions

China's national legislature on Friday formally endorsed the three-child policy mooted by the ruling Communist Party, in a major policy shift aimed to prevent a steep decline in birth rates in the world's most populous country.

The Chinese are projected to spend the equivalent of $7 billion on furry friends by 2022, a surge from $2.6 billion last year, according to the German market research firm Euromonitor.

Nearly two years after China got rid of its one-child policy, a city in China has a similar policy but for a different section of the population - its canines.

A 46-year-old woman in south China has given birth to a healthy baby from an embryo frozen 16 years ago, health officials announced.

With China facing a demographic crisis of stalling birth rates and a fast-ageing population, one city has taken a novel approach: a direct call to action aimed at young government officials to lead the way and have a second child.

China's new policy to permit two children, ending the one child policy this year is resulting in discrimination of women in job market as employers prefer male workers to avoid lengthy maternity leave, official media reported.

Chinese parents who bore children outside the country's one-child policy have protested outside the family planning commission in a bid to have their fines canceled.

China officially ended its one child policy today with the signing into law of a bill allowing all married couples to have a second child as it attempts to cope with an ageing population and shrinking workforce.

China will allow millions of unregistered citizens -- many of them children born in violation of the one-child policy -- to obtain documents vital to secure education and health services long denied to them, state media reported.

China announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy today, after decades of strict, sometimes brutal enforcement left it with an ageing population and shrinking workforce, heightening the challenges of slowing growth.

A short clip of the US author's podcast has gone viral after industrialist Harsh Goenka shared it on X.

A woman took to Twitter to share a heartbreaking story of her mother when she was forced to send her two-month-old daughter to her relative because of the policy.

China had 1.41 billion people at the end of last year, 850,000 fewer than the end of 2021, according to data released by the National Statistics Bureau on Tuesday.

China on Tuesday announced a slew of perks aimed at encouraging families to have more babies, as birth rates hit a record low and officials warned that the population will start to shrink by 2025.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is delaying the retirement age of its government employees as the draconian one-child policy bears its long-term effects in the form of an ageing population accompanied by increased state expenditure on pensions

China's national legislature on Friday formally endorsed the three-child policy mooted by the ruling Communist Party, in a major policy shift aimed to prevent a steep decline in birth rates in the world's most populous country.

The Chinese are projected to spend the equivalent of $7 billion on furry friends by 2022, a surge from $2.6 billion last year, according to the German market research firm Euromonitor.

Nearly two years after China got rid of its one-child policy, a city in China has a similar policy but for a different section of the population - its canines.

A 46-year-old woman in south China has given birth to a healthy baby from an embryo frozen 16 years ago, health officials announced.

With China facing a demographic crisis of stalling birth rates and a fast-ageing population, one city has taken a novel approach: a direct call to action aimed at young government officials to lead the way and have a second child.

China's new policy to permit two children, ending the one child policy this year is resulting in discrimination of women in job market as employers prefer male workers to avoid lengthy maternity leave, official media reported.

Chinese parents who bore children outside the country's one-child policy have protested outside the family planning commission in a bid to have their fines canceled.

China officially ended its one child policy today with the signing into law of a bill allowing all married couples to have a second child as it attempts to cope with an ageing population and shrinking workforce.

China will allow millions of unregistered citizens -- many of them children born in violation of the one-child policy -- to obtain documents vital to secure education and health services long denied to them, state media reported.

China announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy today, after decades of strict, sometimes brutal enforcement left it with an ageing population and shrinking workforce, heightening the challenges of slowing growth.