China will soon start collecting a value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and products for the first time in over 30 years.

Cities do not always grow in a straight line. Like living organisms, they experience growth, maturity, and sometimes decline. This decline, known as urban shrinkage, is a natural phase in the urban ...

Chinatown is seeing more residents and businesses move in, but the proportion of Asian residents has declined despite overall ...

Global economic growth is expected to moderate over the next 15 years in relation to prior decades, according to economists.

Geneticists reveal that the Bo people of Yunnan are direct descendants of those who practiced burial in hanging coffins.

Many Chinese struggle with the temptation. In a population of 1.4bn, some 300m are smokers. Most are male: nearly half of adult Chinese men smoke compared with just under 2% of women. Together they ...

China’s population is projected to fall by more than California’s current population in the next 10 years—and that is only ...

Welcome, everybody, to this press conference to present IMF staff’s key findings from the 2025 Article IV consultation with ...

La Brújula Verde reports that an extensive genetic study of human remains found at the site of Shimao in Shaanxi Province is ...

Half of the world’s population lives in just seven countries. But some of the world’s religious groups are even more ...

BEIJING (ANI)-China’s population continued its downward trend for the third consecutive year, with deaths surpassing the slight rise in births, raising concerns over the nation’s long-term demographic ...

More young Chinese people increasingly see their pets as members of the family, and a robust industry servicing those pets -- including providing funerary services -- is flourishing.