China’s demographic trajectory is changing fast. With lower birth rates, a rapidly aging society, and a shrinking working-age population, the ...

Twenty-five-year-old Grace and her husband are set on staying child-free, resisting pressure from their parents and society to produce offspring, even as China strives to boost its flagging birth rate ...

China’s problem is not that married couples are having fewer children. It is that fewer people are choosing to marry in the first place.

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 ...