BEIJING — China’s population dropped in 2023 by 2 million people — the second consecutive annual drop as births fell and deaths increased after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the government ...

For one thing, demographic decline will put increasing pressure on the country’s military. Today, with more than 2 million ...

The death of Peng Peiyun, a former senior Chinese official who oversaw the countrys one-child policy for a decade, has ...

This is the first decline in the country’s population since 1961, the year of China’s Great Famine, Reuters reported. The population in 2022 sat at 1.41175 billion, a drastic fall from the population ...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has created an economic model that is unsustainable. Official corruption and mismanagement of the economy, the crushing of creativity and innovation in the name of ...

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The death of a former head of China's one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned ...

BEIJING — For seven decades, China’s Communist Party has ruled the world’s most populous country. As the nation’s population crests and begins to shrink, experts say, it will face challenges as varied ...

Demographer Yi Fuxian says China has been overstating its population for about three decades and its current population is 1.28 billion instead of 1.41 billion. Japan and Mexico each have a population ...