China’s population has declined for three straight years. Even a small baby bump during 2024’s auspicious Year of the Dragon ...

After zealously enforcing the one-child policy, the city of Tianmen has made boosting the birth rate a top priority, as ...

Several other cities around China have started to offer cash for families with second and third children, though not quite as much as in Tianmen, a city with a hard-driving local leadership. In ...

BEIJING — China’s ruling Communist Party says it will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two in hopes of slowing the rapid aging of its population, which is ...

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

Who do you think is stronger and tougher -- men or women? It's debatable, of course, unless we're talking about childbirth. To show just how much pain women can take, doctors in China wired men to a ...

Seven Chinese provinces, including Jilin, Jiangsu, and Shandong, have taken the lead in making childbirth virtually free of charge, as China has in recent years significantly increased the coverage ...