A total of 25 Chinese provinces will be distributing maternity leave payments directly to mothers by next month, as part of a broader effort to reverse the country’s flagging birth rate, officials ...

China’s birth rate – the number of births per 1,000 people – has fallen yearly since 2016. In 2023, it reached an all-time low of 6.39, equating to 9.02 million births – the lowest annual figure since ...

BEIJING — China’s ruling Communist Party says it will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two in hopes of slowing the rapid aging of its population, which is ...

China aims to build a birth-friendly society and improve care and engagement for the elderly in the next five years, Health ...

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. “What are your parents’ names?” Fang, then a ...

China's dairy industry is struggling with an oversupply of milk amid a flagging birth rate and economic slowdown. Chinese consumption of dairy, historically low compared with Western countries, rose ...

BEIJING -- Yue Yan is glad to have two daughters but sees why, even with the ruling Communist Party urging them to have more children, fewer Chinese women give birth at all. Yue, 35, spends days ...

Presiding judge Masatoshi Miyasaka ruled in favour of the lorry driver, stating he was robbed of the life he rightfully deserved.