China needs to build marriage-friendly society
1 year, 5 months ago

China needs to build marriage-friendly society

China Daily  

A family pose for a photo at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. The declining marriage and fertility rates in China have become issues of greater concern in recent times due to negative population growth, a shrinking workforce and a fast rising aging population. China's demographic trend is one of "low marriage rate, even lower fertility rates and a fast rising aging population". In fact, last year, the number of new births reached a historic low of 9.56 million, down 1.06 million year-on-year, with the total population decreasing by 850,000, marking the onset of negative growth. As we observe World Population Day on July 11, Africa continues to struggle to control population growth and reduce poverty, while China makes efforts to arrest population decline.

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How to ensure fertility support policies yield desired results
Trending News
2 weeks, 1 day ago

How to ensure fertility support policies yield desired results

China Daily  

The number and structure of people of marriageable age, including women of childbearing age, in China have undergone comprehensive changes. China has greatly eased its strict family planning policy, and is now encouraging couples to have two to three children by implementing fertility support policies. Furthermore, a few of the current family planning regulations lack rationality and supervision, and some …

Natural population growth rate lagging, NBS says
1 month, 1 week ago

Natural population growth rate lagging, NBS says

China Daily  

Amid efforts to boost the nation's birth rate, the China Statistical Yearbook 2024 recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics said only eight provincial-level regions recorded a positive natural population growth rate last year. According to the yearbook, the top three regions in terms of natural population growth rates last year were the Xizang autonomous region, the Ningxia Hui …

Chinese government is calling women, asking when their last period was, and urging them to get pregnant
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Chinese government is calling women, asking when their last period was, and urging them to get pregnant

The Independent  

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China to create TV shows and films that promote ‘childbearing culture’
1 month, 3 weeks ago

China to create TV shows and films that promote ‘childbearing culture’

The Telegraph  

Beijing enforced a “one-child” policy until 2015 that limited couples to just one offspring. However, the longstanding one-child policy left a deep impression on China’s culture that has been difficult to shake, and birth rates have remained depressed. China’s birth rate fell to a record low in 2023 and the population shrunk for the second year in a row. UN …

Population decline won't hold China back
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Population decline won't hold China back

China Daily  

CAI MENG/CHINA DAILY In recent years, a narrative of demographic doom has descended over China. China's shrinking total population and rising graying demographic pose numerous policy challenges that need to be addressed on an urgent basis, as policymakers grapple with issues ranging from falling fertility rates to decisions by many young couples to forgo the skyrocketing expense of raising children, …

Explainer: China to improve systems for supporting high-quality population development
4 months, 1 week ago

Explainer: China to improve systems for supporting high-quality population development

China Daily  

LI MIN/CHINA DAILY BEIJING -- China is set to refine its population development strategy in response to an aging population and declining birth rate, as part of broader reform efforts aimed at ensuring and enhancing people's wellbeing during the course of development. China's population development faces challenges from a declining birth rate, an aging population, and regional population disparities. According …

Explainer: China to improve systems for supporting high-quality population development
4 months, 1 week ago

Explainer: China to improve systems for supporting high-quality population development

China Daily  

LI MIN/CHINA DAILY BEIJING -- China is set to refine its population development strategy in response to an aging population and declining birth rate, as part of broader reform efforts aimed at ensuring and enhancing people's wellbeing during the course of development. China's population development faces challenges from a declining birth rate, an aging population, and regional population disparities. According …

New demographic normal beyond 'old' challenges
4 months, 3 weeks ago

New demographic normal beyond 'old' challenges

China Daily  

JIN DING/CHINA DAILY The development experiences of different countries at different times show that the relationship between population development and socioeconomic development can be mutually reinforcing and mutually constraining. Besides, to realize Chinese modernization, the country has to first address the new demographic challenges and achieve high-quality population development. Based on China's modernization goals and demographic challenges, the essence and …

New demographic normal beyond 'old' challenges
4 months, 3 weeks ago

New demographic normal beyond 'old' challenges

China Daily  

JIN DING/CHINA DAILY The development experiences of different countries at different times show that the relationship between population development and socioeconomic development can be mutually reinforcing and mutually constraining. Besides, to realize Chinese modernization, the country has to first address the new demographic challenges and achieve high-quality population development. Based on China's modernization goals and demographic challenges, the essence and …

China’s low-fertility trap
5 months, 1 week ago

China’s low-fertility trap

Live Mint  

A SMALL NUMBER should haunt the sleep of China’s leaders: 1.1. Even after controlling for education and degrees of social contact with China’s dominant Han majority, many ethnic groups stand out for wanting larger families. Intrigued, Chaguan headed to Guizhou, a province in China’s south-west with many minorities and the highest birth rates of any region outside Tibet. Faced with …

How China lost the plot on population
11 months ago

How China lost the plot on population

Hindustan Times  

On September 25, 1980, the Communist Party of China released a document, titled “Open Letter to members of the Chinese Communist Party and the Communist Youth League”, advocating the “one-child per couple” policy. “The policy also lightened pressure on peoples’ livelihood, on education, on job hunting and on medical care, and in turn has saved the nation and families the …

China’s population dip is a global concern
11 months ago

China’s population dip is a global concern

Hindustan Times  

China’s population fell by 2.08 million in 2023, a decline for the second straight year, the country’s National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday. Add the decline of 850,000 in 2022, and it means that the population of the world’s second most populous nation has declined by nearly three million in two years. Given that China’s elderly population, aged 60 and …

China’s Population Decline Accelerated Last Year
11 months, 1 week ago

China’s Population Decline Accelerated Last Year

Live Mint  

China’s population decline accelerated last year, worsening a demographic gloom that has taken on increasing urgency for Beijing. China ended 2023 with 1.410 billion people, the National Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday, down from 1.412 billion in 2022, when it hit a historic turning point: the first year the population shrank since starvation years in the early 1960s. Another possible …

China's population declines for 2nd year in a row, and so has its workforce; surge seen in elderly people
11 months, 1 week ago

China's population declines for 2nd year in a row, and so has its workforce; surge seen in elderly people

Hindustan Times  

China has reported a downward trend in its population growth for the second consecutive time in 2023, giving rise to its deepening demographic challenge, which is likely to burden its economy – the second largest in the world. The birth rate saw a record drop of 6.39 births per 1,000 people from 6.77 a year earlier. According to China's National …

China’s population falls for a 2nd straight year as births drop even after end of one-child policy
11 months, 1 week ago

China’s population falls for a 2nd straight year as births drop even after end of one-child policy

Associated Press  

BEIJING — China’s population fell by 2 million people in 2023 in its second straight annual decrease, as births dropped for the seventh straight year and deaths jumped following the end of COVID-19 restrictions, the government said Wednesday. The lower fertility rate, together with people living longer because of better health care, means China is slowly growing older, something that …

China’s population falls for a second year in a row as COVID restrictions end
11 months, 1 week ago

China’s population falls for a second year in a row as COVID restrictions end

LA Times  

China’s population dropped in 2023 by 2 million people — the second consecutive annual drop as births fell and deaths increased after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, the government said Wednesday. President Xi Jinping told the new leadership of the All-China Women’s Federation in October that young people need stronger guidance on marriage, parenthood and family, including policies that support …

China: Economic decline, COVID-19 may have reduced population in 2023
11 months, 2 weeks ago

China: Economic decline, COVID-19 may have reduced population in 2023

Firstpost  

After the country abruptly ended severe lockdowns, there was likely a spike in COVID-related deaths in 2023, which caused China’s population to decline for a second consecutive year. Since Beijing abruptly lifted prohibitions in December 2022, the COVID-19 virus spread throughout China’s 1.41 billion people early last year, and demographers predict a substantial increase in the country’s death toll. The …

World’s population has passed 8 billion, says US Census Bureau
1 year, 1 month ago

World’s population has passed 8 billion, says US Census Bureau

The Independent  

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Feeling crowded yet? The US Census Bureau estimates the world’s population has passed 8 billion
1 year, 1 month ago

Feeling crowded yet? The US Census Bureau estimates the world’s population has passed 8 billion

Associated Press  

The human species has topped 8 billion, with longer lifespans offsetting fewer births, but world population growth continues a long-term trend of slowing down, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. While world population growth remains brisk, growing from 6 billion to 8 billion since the turn of the millennium, the rate has slowed since doubling between 1960 and 2000. Fertility …

China Launches Population Survey to Address Alarming Birth Rate Decline
1 year, 1 month ago

China Launches Population Survey to Address Alarming Birth Rate Decline

News 18  

China will begin polling 1.4 billion people on Wednesday in a survey on population changes, as authorities struggle to incentivise people to have more children amid a declining birth rate and the first population drop in more than six decades. China last conducted its once-in-a-decade census in November 2020 which showed it grew at the slowest pace since the first …

Marriage declines in China as young Chinese choose dating, staying single
1 year, 3 months ago

Marriage declines in China as young Chinese choose dating, staying single

Al Jazeera  

The number of marriages falls from 13.5 million couples in 2013 to 6.8 million in 2022. Officials figures show that marriage rates are plummeting in China despite government policies to promote couples marrying and Chinese society’s traditional expectations regarding matrimony. “I don’t like what marriage does to people in China,” she said. China’s ‘singles’ economy’ The advent of personal choice …

China's Fertility Rate Hits Record Low as Concerns Grow Over Population Decline
1 year, 4 months ago

China's Fertility Rate Hits Record Low as Concerns Grow Over Population Decline

News 18  

China’s fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said on Tuesday, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country’s declining number of new births. The state-backed Daily said the figure from China’s Population and Development Research Center put it as having the lowest …

China needs to build marriage-friendly society
1 year, 5 months ago

China needs to build marriage-friendly society

China Daily  

A family pose for a photo at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. The declining marriage and fertility rates in China have become issues of greater concern in recent times due to negative population growth, a shrinking workforce and a fast rising aging population. China's demographic trend is one of "low marriage rate, even lower fertility rates …

Thinking beyond new births for a sustainable future
1 year, 5 months ago

Thinking beyond new births for a sustainable future

China Daily  

A nurse takes care of a newborn baby at Gansu Provincial Maternity and Childcare Hospital in Lanzhou. Since China has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, the issue has attracted global attention over the past year, which has fed into two huge news stories: China's population is declining, and India has "overtaken" China in terms of total …

Thinking beyond new births for a sustainable future
1 year, 5 months ago

Thinking beyond new births for a sustainable future

China Daily  

A nurse takes care of a newborn baby at Gansu Provincial Maternity and Childcare Hospital in Lanzhou. Since China has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, the issue has attracted global attention over the past year, which has fed into two huge news stories: China's population is declining, and India has "overtaken" China in terms of total …

Marriage in China: More young people reject tying the knot
1 year, 5 months ago

Marriage in China: More young people reject tying the knot

Hindustan Times  

For 29-year-old Jingyi Hou, a schoolteacher in China's northern Shanxi province, marriage is not a priority. According to a report published by China's Ministry of Civil Affairs in June 2023, the number of marriage registrations across the country was the lowest in 37 years, following eight years of decline. Ye Liu, a senior lecturer at the Lau China Institute at …

China's biggest online travel agency to pay employees 1 bn yuan to have kids as population rapidly ages, birth rate fall
1 year, 5 months ago

China's biggest online travel agency to pay employees 1 bn yuan to have kids as population rapidly ages, birth rate fall

Firstpost  

Many Chinese women are reluctant to have more than one or even any children due to the high costs of child-rearing and as the lack of childcare means becoming a parent often entails giving up a career. As China is struggling with an ageing population and low birth rate, the country’s biggest online travel agency Trip.com Group announced on Friday …

China would 'get old before it gets rich', say demographers as marriages slump to record low
1 year, 6 months ago

China would 'get old before it gets rich', say demographers as marriages slump to record low

India Today  

Continuing a steady decline over the past decade, marriages in China dropped to the lowest in 2022, local news outlet Yicai reported on Sunday. According to the data published on the website of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, only 6.83 million couples completed their marriage registrations last year, which was down about 8,00,000 from the previous year. Meanwhile, demographers have …

Covid curbs to blame? Marriages in China slump to historic low, says report
1 year, 6 months ago

Covid curbs to blame? Marriages in China slump to historic low, says report

India TV News  

The marriage rate keeps on dropping, with the nation seeing a notable low in 2022 in China, CNN report said. According to the CNN report, China's population is shrinking while the marriage rate is still at an all-time low. According to the report, which cites a report from China's Ministry of Civil Affairs, 6.8 million couples registered to wed in …

Covid lockdowns to blame? Marriages in China slump to historic low
1 year, 6 months ago

Covid lockdowns to blame? Marriages in China slump to historic low

Hindustan Times  

Marriages in China dropped in 2022 to a record low point, Reuters reported quoting local news outlet Yicai. In 2022, China's population fell for the first time in six decades, marking the start of a long period of decline that could impact the country's economy and the world, experts believe. China's birth rate fell last year to 6.77 births per …

'It is no longer difficult to have a baby': China strives to improve childcare, aims for better-skilled population
1 year, 7 months ago

'It is no longer difficult to have a baby': China strives to improve childcare, aims for better-skilled population

Firstpost  

The government, concerned with China’s rapidly ageing population preceded by its first population drop in six decades, has been working to implement measures to reverse the country’s declining birth rate China’s dwindling birth rate has become a cause of concern among policymakers and the government. The newspaper described population development as a major event linked to China’s “great rejuvenation”. The …

Explained: How China is planning to usher in 'new era' of marriage and childbearing culture
1 year, 7 months ago

Explained: How China is planning to usher in 'new era' of marriage and childbearing culture

Firstpost  

China’s population is on a decline. China’s Family Planning Association, a national body that implements the government’s population and fertility measures, announced that the East Asian nation will launch the projects to encourage women to marry and have children, state backed Global Times reported on Monday. AFP Local authorities across China have unveiled a series of measures to encourage child-bearing, …

China launches projects to build 'new-era' marriage, childbearing culture
1 year, 7 months ago

China launches projects to build 'new-era' marriage, childbearing culture

The Hindu  

China will launch pilot projects in more than 20 cities to create a “new-era“ marriage and childbearing culture to foster a friendly child-bearing environment, the latest move by authorities to boost the country’s falling birth rate. China’s Family Planning Association, a national body that implements the government’s population and fertility measures, will launch the projects to encourage women to marry …

Why China got population control wrong; India got it right
1 year, 7 months ago

Why China got population control wrong; India got it right

Al Jazeera  

Yes, India has many challenges ahead, but compared with China, it has shown that slow and steady can win the race. Today, as India’s population passes China’s amid a mix of hope and apprehensions about its implications, it’s important to recall those journeys so societies and policymakers draw the right lessons from them. Under India’s federal structure, state governments set …

UN: India's population will be world's largest by mid-year
1 year, 8 months ago

UN: India's population will be world's largest by mid-year

The Independent  

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Delaying marriage, kids, factor of low birth rate
1 year, 8 months ago

Delaying marriage, kids, factor of low birth rate

China Daily  

Chinese people predominantly prefer to have fewer babies and to provide the best possible conditions for bringing up their children, China's top health authority said on Tuesday, adding that more efforts will be made to encourage young people to get married and have children at adequate ages. The National Health Commission made the comments in response to a national political …

Delaying marriage, kids, factor of low birth rate
1 year, 8 months ago

Delaying marriage, kids, factor of low birth rate

China Daily  

Chinese people predominantly prefer to have fewer babies and to provide the best possible conditions for bringing up their children, China's top health authority said on Tuesday, adding that more efforts will be made to encourage young people to get married and have children at adequate ages. The National Health Commission made the comments in response to a national political …

As China's population dips, effective policies are needed to boost fertility rates
1 year, 8 months ago

As China's population dips, effective policies are needed to boost fertility rates

Firstpost  

Xi Jinping begins his third term as the President of the People’s Republic of China. Various economists had already predicted that China’s one-child policy would bear unfruitful consequences for the country’s economy in the future. Still, in the next ten years, China multiplied its population to such an extent that the Chinese government had to bring stricter policies like One-Child …

China offers 30 days paid ‘marriage leaves’ to tackle declining birth rate
1 year, 10 months ago

China offers 30 days paid ‘marriage leaves’ to tackle declining birth rate

Firstpost  

Beijing: After announcing plans of covering fertility treatments to boost a declining birth rate, some provinces in China will offer 30 days of paid leaves for newlyweds couples. According to reports by China’s People’s Daily Health, the north-western province of Gansu as well as the province of Shanxi will now give 30 days of paid marriage leaves while Shanghai gives …

Chinese provinces give 30 days' paid 'marriage leave' to boost birth rate
1 year, 10 months ago

Chinese provinces give 30 days' paid 'marriage leave' to boost birth rate

ABC  

Some Chinese provinces are giving young newlyweds 30 days of paid leave in the hope of encouraging marriage and boosting a flagging birth rate, the Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily says. Key points: Last year China recorded its lowest ever birth rate That's due to the one-child policy and surging education costs An experts says there needs to be …

In China, men pay rising dowries as ‘bride prices’ surge
1 year, 10 months ago

In China, men pay rising dowries as ‘bride prices’ surge

The Hindu  

A widening gender imbalance in rural China is driving men to pay record dowries known as “bride prices”, a practice that has grown so widespread that the Chinese government last week pledged to intervene. ‘Change outdated customs’ While the main thrust of the document is on revitalising rural areas, production, infrastructure, and technology, “Document No.1” also pledged to launch a …

China hopes to reverse low birth rate with free fertility treatment
1 year, 10 months ago

China hopes to reverse low birth rate with free fertility treatment

Firstpost  

Beijing: In a bid to address a plummeting birth rate, China is planning to offer free fertility treatments to its citizens under the national insurance scheme. The country’s National Healthcare Security Administration has said that it would extend its coverage to bear the costs of fertility treatments like assisted reproductive technology and in vitro fertilisation for couples trying to conceive. …

Explained | Why is China’s population shrinking?
1 year, 11 months ago

Explained | Why is China’s population shrinking?

The Hindu  

The story so far: China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced on January 17, 2023 that the country’s population had fallen by 8,50,000 in the year 2022. Birth rates in China have declined since the 1980s and in the wake of the “one-child policy”, which introduced harsh measures such as forced abortions and high financial penalties. Editorial | Aging factory: On …

China's population is now inexorably shrinking, bringing forward the day the planet's population turns down
1 year, 11 months ago

China's population is now inexorably shrinking, bringing forward the day the planet's population turns down

ABC  

China's National Bureau of Statistics has confirmed what researchers such as myself have long suspected — that 2022 was the year China's population turned down, the first time that has happened since the great famine brought on by Chinese leader Mao Zedong in 1959-1961. When the total fertility rate is as low as China's has been for a long time, …

China’s Declining Population Can Still Prosper
54 years, 11 months ago

China’s Declining Population Can Still Prosper

Wired  

Earlier this week, the National Bureau of Statistics in China announced that the Chinese population has decreased for the first time in 60 years. Many people see China’s low fertility and declining population as a threat to its economic prosperity, assuming the labor force will shrink at the same time that social security costs and the number of older dependents …

What will China's population drop mean for the world?
1 year, 11 months ago

What will China's population drop mean for the world?

BBC  

What will China's population drop mean for the world? Getty Images BBC Future answers five key questions about China's recent population decline and what it might mean for global demographic trends. According to the UN's World Population Prospects report for 2022, China's population was predicted to decline in 2023 – the reduction recently revealed by the country's census had been …

China records 1st population fall in decades as births drop
1 year, 11 months ago

China records 1st population fall in decades as births drop

Associated Press  

BEIJING — China’s population shrank for the first time in decades last year as its birthrate plunged, official figures showed Tuesday, adding to pressure on leaders to keep the economy growing despite an aging workforce and at a time of rising tension with the U.S. Despite the official numbers, some experts believe China’s population has been in decline for a …

China’s population falls for the first time in 60 years
1 year, 11 months ago

China’s population falls for the first time in 60 years

The Independent  

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China's population dips 1st time since 1960s, India likely to overtake soon
1 year, 11 months ago

China's population dips 1st time since 1960s, India likely to overtake soon

Hindustan Times  

The world's most populous country, China, saw its population dwindle last year for the first time in six decades, the National Bureau of Statistics revealed on Tuesday. In 2022, China's birth rate was 6.77 births per 1,000 people, down from a rate of 7.52 births in the previous year and as a result, marked the lowest birth rate on record, …

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