Loud encouragement for women to have more children, coupled with a rise in rhetoric equating femininity with weakness, could be a damaging combination for women’s rights in China.

In a major policy overhaul, China will allow each couple to have three children to address the challenges of its ageing population. The decision was announced after a Communist Party Politburo ...

The new “three-child policy” received generally lukewarm responses in China. Many Chinese couples say they prefer not to have ...

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China's persistent decline in fertility rates and the accompanying demographic shift towards an ageing population have brought challenges to the country's health-care system, particularly in the realm ...

The one-child policy has been dying a slow death for years. Its official end won't change much for China.

Desperate times could force China to adopt a ‘tone-setting’ shift by completely scrapping its family-planning policies, which experts say would help mitigate the shrinkage of the world’s ...

Though China’s one-child policy is the obvious culprit for this low birth rate ... According to data from China’s Health Ministry, each state-run IVF clinic serves some 3.8 million patients – ...

a result largely of China's one-child policy imposed between 1980 and 2015, rapid urbanisation and the high cost of raising a family. Couples have been allowed to have as many as three children ...

BEIJING -- The Chinese government is planning a step-by-step approach to making early childhood education free, aiming to reduce the burden of high child-rearing ... for the three years before ...

China lifted its long-held one-child policy almost a decade ago now as concerns ... the world’s most-populous country has decreased for three consecutive years. And its marriage rate — a ...