China is facing demographic challenges, but official numbers may understate the issue. This video explores the truth behind birth rate data and what it means for the country’s economy and society.

Beijing has rolled out a series of pro-natalist policies, from offering cash handouts to improving childcare services, extending paternity and maternity leave.

Raising a child through age 18 costs more than an estimated 538,000 yuan ($76,000), a price at which many young adults are ...

The new levy reflects a broader policy pivot, as a rapidly ageing China shifts from limiting births to encouraging people to ...

For decades, global developmental discourse has been overwhelmingly shaped by the imagery of cities, towering skylines, megacities, industrial belts, and densely networked metropolitan zones that ...

Engineers inspect a line of enormous stainless-steel vats where a biologic drug will soon begin production, derived from cells originating in hamster ovaries. With each vat big enough to make 50,000 ...

In cooperative societies – like elephants or whales – natural selection seems to favour genetic mechanisms that suppress cancer, study says.

Chinese leapfrogging is showing up in a host of other sectors, including defence Read more at The Business Times.

After more than a decade of intensive efforts, China still can't declare victory in its battle against smoking. Though the ...

In cooperative societies – like elephants or whales – natural selection seems to favour genetic mechanisms that suppress ...