China will soon no longer be world’s most populous country—a title it has held for centuries—underscoring the daunting challenge it confronts to maintain its global dominance. BUNDLES OF JOY ...

Beijing: China’s population decline accelerated in 2023, official data showed yesterday, extending a downward streak after more than six decades of growth as the country battles a looming ...

Thermal power generation in China, fuelled mainly by coal, fell 2.3% in April and 4.1% from January to April amid slower ...

Once derided for its slower pace, Chengdu has a surging population and booming real estate market as workers look beyond ...

China's new home prices were unchanged in April from a month earlier, official data showed on Monday, extending the no-growth ...

The replacement level of 2.1 births per woman is required for a population to sustain itself. Falling below this threshold signals long-term demographic decline.

The things they eat - frogs, birds, worms, and mice - are also in decline," Zhang said. The situation forced the government to list 43 snake species as endangered wildlife in 1998, China Daily said.

Gold prices declined on Friday as China mulls suspending tariffs on certain US imports, denting the metal’s safe-haven appeal. Spot gold fell 0.8 per cent to $3,322.36 an ounce as of 0421 GMT.

Credit: Trygve Finkelsen / Shutterstock.com. Tesla’s China-made electric vehicle (EV) sales saw a 6% year-on-year decline in April, a continuation of a seven-month downward trend, reported Reuters.

Pedro Pardo / AFP / Getty Images Tesla shipped fewer vehicles made in China in April than it did a year ago, in its seventh straight month of declining shipments. Earlier this week, Tesla sales ...

Forecasts from the United Nations predict that world population will actually decline after 2080. Slower population growth and even decline will not trigger economic catastrophe, but it will bring ...