As China's birthrate hit a record low, CNBC's China Correspondent Elaine Yu reports on the factors weighing on the shrinking ...

Last week, Beijing’s release of China’s national birth count for 2025 left demographers stunned. The national birth total plummeted by over 17% from 2024 to 2025, the PRC disclosed. That sort of ...

China’s births have fallen to historic lows and deep structural forces make any lasting fertility rebound unlikely.

In this week’s episode of China Insider, Miles Yu covers the recent Chinese Communist Party investigations into the vice ...

Xi Jinping’s vision of China rests on a distinctive conception of the good life, one that de-emphasises individual desires ...

China's efforts to bolster birth rates have yet to address the core reasons for their rapid decline, according to analysts. The number of new marriage registrations also plunged by 25% year on year in ...

China clocked its lowest birth rate on record in 2025 as its population shrank for the fourth year in a row, deepening a demographic challenge that could drag on the world’s second-largest economy for ...

For the first time in more than three decades, condoms will no longer enjoy VAT-exempt status in China as a new law seeks to boost birth rates. The legislation, approved in late December 2024, sets ...

China’s future depends on whether Xi Jinping’s centralised model can reintroduce internal correction mechanisms, tolerate limited decentralisation, and restore administrative flexibility before demogr ...

Last week, Beijing’s release of China’s national birth count for 2025 left demographers stunned. The national birth total plummeted by over 17% from 2024 to 2025, the PRC disclosed. That sort of ...