For decades, China enjoyed a role as the “world’s factory,” drawing upon its immense labor force to manufacture goods cheaply and quickly. As the number of working-age people in China drops ...

An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...

Chinas economy is grappling with intensifying challenges as mounting debt, persistent deflation, and an aging population ...

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don't ...

The decline in China's population last year is likely to have exceeded the historic fall recorded in 2022, but the overall downward trend in the next three decades will be mild, a senior demographer ...

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Discover how China's new 'ghost cities' have left up to 80 million empty homes, and how years of incentives mean some are ...

China’s extreme automation is a strength, but it’s also a response to the country’s most fundamental weakness: the impending ...

Long seen in the West as a byword for the Chinese Communist Party’s heavy-handedness, the one-child policy became a trope for Chinese authoritarianism. While the policy was officially scrapped in 2015 ...

China Evergrande Group’s delisting marks a bleak milestone for the nation’s property sector, now in a fourth year of paralysis that continues to weigh down the world’s second-largest economy. The ...