Despite efforts to encourage young couples to have children, China's birth rate hit a record low.

To combat its declining birth rate, China will impose a 13% tax on contraceptives starting in 2026, reversing a decades-long ...

Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, fertility rates have not bounced back. NPR speaks with journalist Cindy Yu about what this means.

China’s population crisis deepened in 2025 as births fell to a historic low, highlighting the limits of Beijing’s efforts to ...

Official figures released Monday revealed the country’s birth rate dropped to just 5.63 per 1,000 people in 2025, while the death rate climbed to 8.04 per 1,000 -- the highest since 1968. The result: ...

Government statistics reveal that China's population of 1.4 billion has continued to reduce, marking the fourth consecutive ...

Authorities are pushing a range of ideas and policies to try and encourage more births, ranging from cash subsidies to taxing ...

China recorded just eight million births last year, far below replacement levels, as high living costs and an ageing ...

China will soon start collecting a value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and products for the first time in over three decades, a move aligned with Beijing’s effort to get families to have more ...