China has recorded a drop in marriage registrations for the first nine months of 2024, heightening fears of a demographic crisis in the country. Despite a "sweeping government campaign to boost ...

An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...

Marriage registrations in China could fall to as low as 6.01 million this year, prompting cash incentives from some local governments China is on track to post its lowest number of marriage ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Civil Affairs University announced a new undergraduate marriage program to develop marriage-related industries and culture, drawing scorn of social media users who ...

Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, the world’s second-largest economy is now grappling with one of the lowest ...

A Chinese woman with uremia married a cancer patient for his kidney but their survival pact unexpectedly turned into love, ...

A total of 6.11 million couples registered marriages nationwide in 2024, including 9.17 million first-time marriages and 3.04 ...

In 2014, Wang Xiao was diagnosed with uremia and warned she might not survive a year without a kidney transplant. With no ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan. You ...

Retirees roam ’marriage markets’ armed with paper profiles listing their unwed children’s physical traits, finances and ...

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 ...