The city of Huzhou in Zhejiang province has raised the age cap for cruising taxi drivers from 60 to 65, becoming the latest city to do so as China faces an increasing pressure of an aging society and ...

The raising of the retirement age is based on people's increased life expectancy and extended years of schooling, and is a positive move to deal with the aging problem and lower birthrate, experts ...

Notably, leaders of the APEC on Saturday adopted a joint declaration, for the first time in the history of APEC that they have reached a common vision for artificial intelligence collaboration and a ...

Many economists and business leaders are raising alarms about falling birthrates. But advocates for lower human populations say a less crowded world will be happier and more sustainable.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Asia-Pacific leaders on Friday that his country would help to defend global free trade at an ...

Across Asia, rapid development has ushered in a new demographic reality—population aging. Recognizing this economic and ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Asia-Pacific leaders his country would help to defend global free trade as U.S. President ...

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

NPR’s John Ruwitch visited a "dead village" in Northeast China, where the population has decreased substantially, resulting in a largely aging population. He talked to elderly parents there, and then ...

Tombs scattered across China, built between the 4,000-year old Xia Dynasty and the modern era, reflect the political and ...

As President of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) and Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) in Beijing, China, ...

With 300 million seniors and a shrinking workforce, China’s “silver economy” is emerging as one of its most durable new ...