With fewer babies and more deaths, China’s population fell for a fourth straight year as policymakers face a demographic ...

China's population fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 as the birthrate plunged to a record low, official data showed ...

China clocked its lowest birth rate on record in 2025 as its population shrank for the fourth year in a row, deepening a demographic challenge that could drag on the world’s second-largest economy for ...

China's population continues to decline, with official data showing a fall by 3.39 million in 2025 to 1.405 billion. Births ...

China's population policy is emerging as a key part of its economic strategy as Beijing rolls out its most wide-ranging push ...

China's new population strategies aim to counteract declining births and are integral to its economic approach. The initiatives, costing an estimated 180 billion yuan by 2026, include subsidies and ...

China will begin charging a 13% value-added tax on contraceptives starting Jan. 1 while exempting childcare services from the same tax, a move authorities say is part of a broader effort to boost ...

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 ...

BEIJING, Dec 25 (Reuters) - The death of a former head of China's one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned policy on social media this week. State media ...

China has begun imposing a 13 percentsales tax on contraceptives such as condoms, birth control pills, and devices from January 1, 2026, while exempting childcare services from value-added tax (VAT).

The government said women in ⁠2026 would have 'no out-of-pocket expenses' during their pregnancy, with medical costs fully ...