Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don't ...

China is experiencing unprecedented, and probably irreversible, population decline that will hamper its economic growth and ...

One of China’s most important meetings begins Monday, as President Xi Jinping and other party elites gather in Beijing to map ...

High up Shenzhen’s Ping An Finance Center—the world’s fifth-tallest skyscraper—is a modest one-bedroom demo apartment. It’s well-furnished, smartly designed, and wouldn’t be out of place in one of ...

In a nation grappling with economic uncertainty and sweeping demographic change, Chinese workers are reinventing themselves in unexpected ways.

In one generation, Chinese families have been told to bear fewer children, then one, then two and now three. But shifting ...

In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party devised an artful strategy to replace the United States as the world’s superpower by 2049. But after more than three decades of a draconian one-child policy and a ...

In 2023, India surpassed China as the most populous country in the world, and is likely to retain this status for the remainder of this century. In a recent study, IIASA researchers explored whether ...

China’s longevity market is emerging as a powerful new growth frontier as the country enters a rapidly aging demographic era.

China's dwindling population is being offset by a significant increase in automation, with 300,000 new industrial robots deployed in factories last year.