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

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don't ...

Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, the world’s second-largest economy is now grappling with one of the lowest ...

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

Chinas economy is grappling with intensifying challenges as mounting debt, persistent deflation, and an aging population ...

"In the next 50 years, China will have to face three population 'peaks,'" said Hu Angang, a professor at Qinghua University. More than 100 million rural Chinese have moved to the cities seeking work, ...

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 ...

Dongfeng Gu and colleagues review community based cohort studies in China, finding strategies to improve the quality and scale of these studies in China and beyond Community based cohort studies ...

Mainland China and Hong Kong have gained more billionaires, reversing a decline three years ago, after the world's ...

China experienced an unprecedented rise in ultra-wealthy individuals in 2020, largely due to a thriving stock market and the ...