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

China’s extreme automation is a strength, but it’s also a response to the country’s most fundamental weakness: the impending ...

China began to accumulate its own technologies and ideas, benefitting from learning from the West's achievements since the ...

China is experiencing unprecedented, and probably irreversible, population decline that will hamper its economic growth and its ambitions to rival the United States.

Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, the world’s second-largest economy is now grappling with one of the lowest ...

The decline in China's population last year is likely to have exceeded the historic fall recorded in 2022, but the overall downward trend in the next three decades will be mild, a senior demographer ...

Chinas economy is grappling with intensifying challenges as mounting debt, persistent deflation, and an aging population ...

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don't ...

Family size around the world is dropping. That choice by couples is triggering a population shift that's sending shockwaves ...

China's agricultural soils have become increasingly acidic over the last few decades, threatening crop productivity and ...

TOKYO — Japan was set to get its first woman prime minister on Tuesday after Sanae Takaichi, a China hawk and social ...