Despite Beijing’s campaign to encourage couples to have more children, new data shows China’s population decline is ...

Despite efforts to encourage young couples to have children, China's birth rate hit a record low.

Last week, Beijing’s release of China’s national birth count for 2025 left demographers stunned. The national birth total plummeted by over 17% from 2024 to 2025, the PRC disclosed. That sort of ...

A woman lifts up a child in Beijing, China, on Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) A woman lifts up a child in Beijing, China, on Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) People catch a sight of the ...

China is shrinking as more couples are making a conscious choice not to have babies, a challenge for President Xi Jinping's ...

History has a strange way of surprising persons as well as nations. Today China is forced to offer incentives like free childbirth expenses to be implemented in 2026. Why? Its population has been ...

YIMIANPO, China — Small town life suits Lin Xin. Her yard in the town of Yimianpo, in northeastern China, is one big, sun-soaked garden where the family grows cabbages, carrots, peanuts, and a ...

Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time and the numbers for having another child just don’t add up.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BANGKOK — How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? A decade after ...

BANGKOK (AP) — How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? A decade after ending China’s longtime one-child policy, the country’s ...