China is on track to achieve an unprecedented economic increment exceeding 35 trillion yuan ($4. 89 trillion) by 2025, as highlighted by NDRC chief Zheng Shanjie at a recent press conference detailing ...

China's population shrank further in 2024, even though births ticked upward for the first time in seven years.

The Chinese government has announced that Zhang Moumou, the mastermind behind a massive crypto pyramid scheme, has been extradited from Thailand to China following an extensive international ...

China has long been over-reporting its population, over 100 million people fewer than officially claimed, a Chinese scientist told Newsweek, a claim met with strong resistance from demography circles.

China’s population in 1980 was around 980 million. It was distributed in the classic pyramid shape of a growing population: wider at the younger ages and narrower at the older ages.

China’s demographic structure is gradually shifting towards an inverted pyramid shape as its population is greying faster, central bank adviser Cai Fang says.

Statistics suggest that China’s total fertility rate, which has steadily declined from 1.5 births per woman in the late 1990s to 1.15 in 2021, is now approaching 1.0—far below the replacement ...

China’s population fell by 2 million people in 2023, its second straight annual decrease with record low birth rates and an aging population raising economic and societal challenges.