The number of births in China, which has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates, fell by 17 percent in 2025.

Delegates at the ongoing Chinese parliamentary meetings have offered suggestions to help raise the fertility rate. Read more ...

A couple prepares to participate in a staged mass wedding in Shanghai BEIJING (Reuters) - China, which has been releasing a slew of measures to bolster its sagging population levels, recorded a drop ...

Recently released Chinese government statistics show marriages continue to decline, with only 4.75 million couples registering in the third quarter. Chinese policymakers are urgently trying to address ...

In a country where homosexuality was illegal until just 16 years ago and classed as a mental illness until 2001, advocates for gay rights in China complain that attitudes toward their community are ...

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A national political advisor has called on China to lower the legal marriage age to boost its declining birth rate—yet analysts tell Newsweek such a move is unlikely to sway young Chinese. Newsweek ...

BEIJING: A social media ban on a stand-up comic for joking about marriage has triggered an online backlash in China.