Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, fertility rates have not bounced back. NPR speaks with journalist Cindy Yu ...

HONG KONG, Jan 16 () - China's population policy is emerging as a key part of its economic strategy as Beijing rolls out its ...

China has imposed taxes on contraceptives sold domestically starting this new year. The Chinese Ministry of Finance recently ...

The Asian giant is grappling with a dramatic population decline, with a fertility rate of 1.0, well below the 2.1 replacement ...

For many Chinese citizens, the move feels contradictory. The same state that is urging people to marry and have children is now making contraception more expensive.

Chinese people will pay a 13% sales tax on contraceptives from 1 January, while childcare services will be exempt, as the world's second-largest economy tries to boost birth rates.

The low birth rate is one of the greatest headaches for Beijing, which in just 10 years has moved from strict family-planning ...

CHINA has hiked up the prices of condoms and other contraceptives amid plummeting birth rates in the world’s second most populated country. An extra 13 per cent value-added tax has been ...

Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax exemption on contraceptives. Amid historically low birth rates and economic ...

We are still in the season of prognostications about the year ahead. But I gave my forecasts for 2026 last week. Today I am looking much further into the future, examining our demographic prospects.