New subsidies aren’t selling young people on the future.

China's rapidly declining fertility rate—reaching a record low of 1·0—marks a historic demographic turning point for the world's most populous country.1 Although much attention has been paid to the ...

A nurse in the neonatal intensive Care Unit of the People's Hospital is providing care for newborns in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China on May 12, 2025. China is offering couples a subsidy to have ...

China’s central government introduced a childcare subsidy on July 28 that will provide families with 3,000 yuan (around $418) a year for each child under the age of three. The announcement came days ...

As China's population approached 1 billion in the late 1970s, the then Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping introduced the one-child policy in 1979, and China even fined parents for having more children. Four ...

China's biggest enemy is struggling with a declining birth rate, resulting in a continuing drop in its total population.

China’s long-term economic growth is at risk owing to a shrinking labor force and rapidly aging population, according to Oxford Economics. The country’s potential output growth could fall below 2% by ...

Zane Li was nine years old when he got a baby sister – and her arrival plunged the family in a small city in eastern China into crippling debt. Under China’s stringent one-child policy at the time, Li ...

(Yicai) Sept. 15 -- Chinese children’s apparel manufacturers are facing a shrinking market at home, as birth rates continue ...

China is offering couples a subsidy to have children. The country’s government will pay $500 per year until the child is three years old. The move comes as concerns about China’s birth rate grow. Some ...