As China grapples with a rapidly ageing population, Beijing urges employees to plan ahead - but is anybody listening? For many young people in China, the government's call to prepare for retirement ...

Shrinking populations are reshaping global economies, and some nations may thrive while others fall behind in an age of ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

Among the regions experiencing population decline last year are Jilin and Liaoning provinces in Northeast China. The region has seen the steepest declines in recent years due to large-scale ...

China is secretly building a military command center that is expected to dwarf the Pentagon in size. Satellite images showed the rapid construction of the 1,500-acre site located southwest of Beijing.

Initially, 2023 reported a population decline, but the new report shows a slight increase. It supersedes the previous data, so the rebound started earlier than was previously known. The population ...

Salient factors include the steady decline in China’s childbearing-age population; changes in lifestyle; the lingering effects of the (now-discarded) one-child policy on attitudes toward ...

While stand-alone this may not appear as a very pertinent challenge, coupled with the consistent decline in population, it gets compounded. China’s population has been declining consistently for ...