World's second-biggest economy faces a threat as Chinese are not getting marriedMarriages in China fell 20% last year, reaching a record low of 6.1 million. The drop presents a challenge to China's efforts to counter it...
10 Feb, 2025, 04.36 PM IST
China's looming crisis is why Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu prefers a rural lifeZoho CEO Sridhar Vembu discusses rural living and traditional values in addressing demographic challenges, comparing China and Japan. He po...
06 Jan, 2025, 12.10 AM IST
China's demographic time bomb: Preschools turn into nursing homes as retirement age risesChina will raise its retirement age starting January 1, 2025, in a bid to combat an escalating demographic and economic crisis. The reform,...
14 Sep, 2024, 04.20 PM IST
China to avoid 'Lehman moment' despite property woes, Goldman saysThe U.S. economy will avoid a recession this year, he said, but the Federal Reserve will take a while before it starts to cut interest rate...
14 Sep, 2023, 03.38 PM IST
China downplays India overtaking it as the most populous country; says it still has over 900 million 'quality' workforceChina's Foreign Ministry has said that its workforce of close to 900 million people will provide a strong impetus for development, as India...
19 Apr, 2023, 11.01 PM IST
Why China's shrinking population is a problem for everyoneChina's population decline, which will soon make India the most populous nation, will have significant effects on its economy and global br...
19 Apr, 2023, 01.19 PM IST
China's affluence aim may be a bit richA third of the world's population is unlikely to experience mass prosperity. With population decline in prosperous nations, what was touted...
18 Jan, 2023, 11.14 PM IST
China's population falls for first time in over six decades: Key takeawaysChina ended its strict one-child policy — imposed in the 1980s owing to fears of overpopulation — in 2016 and began allowing couples to hav...
18 Jan, 2023, 12.36 PM IST
Marriages in China decline to lowest numbers since 1986Only 7.64 million couples registered to get married across China, the world's most populous nation, in 2021, the lowest since 1986, accordi...
01 Sep, 2022, 04.48 PM IST
Sharp fall in marriages heightens China's concerns over declining birth rateA total of 7.63 million couples registered to get married across China in 2021, a record low for the past 36 years since 1986 when the Mini...
02 Apr, 2022, 04.03 PM IST
China approves three-child policy with sops to encourage couples to have more childrenThe revised Population and Family Planning Law, which allows Chinese couples to have three children, was passed by the Standing Committee o...
20 Aug, 2021, 11.43 AM IST
China's newly-announced 3-child policy receives unenthusiastic responseIn the face of a looming demographic crisis, China on Monday eased its two-child policy to allow couples to have three children. However, t...
01 Jun, 2021, 09.55 AM IST
India may overtake China as most populous country sooner than UN projections of 2027: ReportIndia is expected to add nearly 273 million people to its population between now and 2050, a UN report said in 2019, forecasting that the c...
12 May, 2021, 08.08 PM IST
Growth of China's migrant workforce declines: ReportThe growth rate dropped 0.6 per cent in 2015, and the percentage of workers younger than 40 years dropped 1.3 per cent to 55.2 per cent.
29 Apr, 2016, 06.07 PM IST
China officially ends three-decade-old one child policyChina today officially junked its one child policy, allowing couples to have a second child amid deepening demographic crisis of shrinking ...
27 Dec, 2015, 05.20 PM IST
China looks to further relax one-child policy: Premier Li Keqiang"(We will) make improvements and adjustments to the policy in accordance with legal procedures," Li told his annual media briefing here.
15 Mar, 2015, 03.42 PM IST
China must adopt two child policy: OfficialFamily planning official said government must adopt a two child norm to have more young people to address growing number of ageing populati...
13 Feb, 2015, 07.20 PM IST