China’s primary and kindergarten enrolments… China recorded 46.3 million kindergarten and preschool enrolments last year, down 1.7 million from 2021, official…
China’s youth snub ‘hardship’ of caring for… Elderly care centres are on the frontline of China’s demographic crisis, but many are struggling financially and…
‘There are no children’: China’s kindergartens… Lacking state funding and faced with stricter government scrutiny, private kindergartens are on the front line of…
China’s births to fall to a third of India’s by… As China’s workforce continues to shrink, labour costs will continue rising, and some manufacturing industries will…
Are you pregnant? Chinese authorities ask… An online post about a newlywed in China, who was rung up by her local government asking if she was pregnant,…
China’s pension burden in spotlight after new… Citizens aged 60 or over account for more than a fifth of residents in 13 of China’s 31 provincial-level…
China must ‘adapt accordingly’ to cope with… China’s economy is faced with a rapidly ageing society and looming population peak, as well as a technology rivalry…
In a China first, province subsidises maternity… Companies in Jiangsu can now claim a reimbursement for maternity leave pay provided to employees who have a second…
As births drop, China’s demographic crisis may… A demographic crisis arising from China’s unprecedented low number of newborns is being compounded by an elderly…