Even as China’s leaders have looked for ways to lift sagging birthrates, Beijing thought there was one group who would always ...

Johannes Eisele / AFP via Getty Images Major cities across China are sinking, putting a substantial portion of the country's rapidly urbanizing population in harm's way in the coming decades, ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world's second most populous nation, ...

While other parts of China grow more “involuted”, marked by excessive competition and pressure, observers and locals say ...

SINGAPORE — Nearly half of China’s major cities are suffering “moderate to severe” levels of subsidence, putting millions of people at risk of flooding especially as sea levels rise, according to a ...

BEIJING — China’s population dropped in 2023 by 2 million people — the second consecutive annual drop as births fell and deaths increased after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the government ...

China launches wedding and childbirth subsidies as it fights a steep population decline rooted in decades of one-child policy ...

China's population fell by 2 million people in 2023 in its second straight annual decrease, as births dropped for the seventh straight year and deaths jumped following the end of COVID-19 restrictions ...

In 2025, the world’s population has crossed 8.2 billion, and nearly half of all people now live in urban areas, a figure that ...

The construction boom that accompanied China's rapid economic rise sparked a wave of large-scale residential and commercial projects across the country. This gave rise to vast, under-inhabited ...