BEIJING — China's once-a-decade census showed the population of the mainland was 1.41 billion people as of Nov. 1, 2020, marking the slowest growth rate since the 1950s. The average annual growth rate ...

An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...

Nov 9 (Reuters) - 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. She told the young man, ...

China’s population of 1.4 billion people is the largest in the world, right? Not anymore. In 2023 India surpassed China as the most populous country. China’s population began shrinking in 2022, and ...

Editor’s note: This piece was updated to correct population estimates. We regret the error. This month, China’s government began a nationwide poll of 500,000 ...

The world is on the cusp of a remarkable transition — remarkable, at least, to those of us born in the 20th century. China, long the most populous nation on the planet, will soon see its population be ...

China's population of over 1.4 billion could drop by a precipitous 60 percent by the end of the century, according to a Chinese think tank. By 2100, the world's second-largest population could number ...

"In the next 50 years, China will have to face three population 'peaks,'" said Hu Angang, a professor at Qinghua University. More than 100 million rural Chinese have moved to the cities seeking work, ...

China reported remarkable economic growth of 5.4 percent in the first quarter of 2025. Its growth is fascinating, since it far outstripped all large economies. It is also noteworthy because it comes ...