birth rate

New Business

Researchers find mismatch between China’s fertility incentives, local birth rates

How much do financial incentives and other means of support influence the decision to have children, or how many to…

Read More »
New Business

Why China is betting on birth subsidies to solve its population crisis

When Tang Tang, a mother from Tianmen in central China, gave birth to her second child in December, it brought…

Read More »
New Business

The bold new proposal for solving China’s birth crisis: free kindergarten

Proposals to provide families with access to free preschool education appear to be gaining political momentum in China, as the…

Read More »
New Business

China’s population woes deepen as marriage registrations plummet to lowest level since 1980

China recorded its lowest number of new marriages for four decades in 2024, in a sign that the country’s challenges…

Read More »
New Business

Pet healthcare booms in China as furry friends outnumber infants and toddlers

Just a few months after opening his first pet clinic in Hangzhou in early 2019, Yang Zhong, the founder of…

Read More »
New Business

Too busy for love in time of baby bust: Chinese university students embrace being single

Buried under a mountain of responsibilities, Owen Cao, a first-year graduate student at a university in northern China, finds himself…

Read More »
New Business

China’s birth rate unlikely to benefit from influx of Filipino helpers, analysts say

The minimum wage is 2,690 yuan a month in Shanghai, the highest in the country. “I’m also concerned about the…

Read More »
Back to top button