China has reached a critical juncture where it has to change the economic growth model. Innovation, supported by effective ...

State-backed broadcaster CCTV ran a segment on the trains on Tuesday showing elderly passengers dancing — a common sight in early morning city parks in mainland China — and playing mah-jong. A red ...

Local-level debt, an imbalanced industrial structure and population outflows continue to take a hefty toll on efforts to revitalise China's poorer regions Traditional economic pillars of China's ...

China said on Friday its population fell for the third year running in 2024, extending a downward streak after more than six decades of growth as the country faces a rapidly ageing population and ...

China has been keen to slow population growth for several years. A larger population equals more mouths to feed, more houses and jobs required and a greater demand on schools and hospitals.

China’s demographic challenges could eventually hurt the nation’s economic prospects as a shrinking workforce puts a strain on growth. Additionally, an expanding elderly population would pile ...

China's low birth rate and aging population are ending any hopes Beijing had of overtaking the U.S. as an economic giant.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China’s chief governmental data ... revealed the yearly figures for gross domestic product, population, unemployment and other metrics that will inform ...

while industrial output rose 5.8 per cent thanks to strong growth in manufacturing China’s population shrank by almost 1.4mn in 2024, the third consecutive year of declines Residential property ...

China’s demographic challenges could eventually hurt the nation’s economic prospects as a shrinking workforce puts a strain on growth. Additionally, an expanding elderly population would pile more ...

TAIPEI--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 ...