China is experiencing unprecedented, and probably irreversible, population decline that will hamper its economic growth and ...

High up Shenzhen’s Ping An Finance Center—the world’s fifth-tallest skyscraper—is a modest one-bedroom demo apartment. It’s well-furnished, smartly designed, and wouldn’t be out of place in one of ...

In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party devised an artful strategy to replace the United States as the world’s superpower by 2049. But after more than three decades of a draconian one-child policy and a ...

In 2023, India surpassed China as the most populous country in the world, and is likely to retain this status for the remainder of this century. In a recent study, IIASA researchers explored whether ...

China's dwindling population is being offset by a significant increase in automation, with 300,000 new industrial robots ...

China is planning to include new measures to encourage more births and address its rapidly ageing population as part of its new 2021-2025 "five-year plan", state media reported on Monday.

A month after Lauren mustered the courage to tell her mother she is lesbian, the 26-year-old Shanghai resident came out to a stranger who knocked on her door.

Growing elderly population another conundrum for Chinese policymakers grappling with high youth unemployment and 'ultra-low' fertility This is the second in a three-part series delving into the ...

In 2022, China for the first time in 20 years didn't have a woman among the 24 members of its Politburo or the seven members ...

China’s factories welcomed 295,000 newly installed industrial robots last year, easing fears the nation’s manufacturing ...