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 ...

Beijing (AFP) – 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 ...

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

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

China is launching "silver trains" for elderly tourists to boost domestic travel, consumer spending, and economic growth, The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 fertility rate is hovering around one birth per woman, well below the 2.1 replacement rate needed for population growth, leading experts to forecast that its decline will continue for ...