Under Two-Child Policy, Many Find One is Enough
After adjusting family planning rules to allow families to have two children, the Chinese...
Jan 25, 2017
After adjusting family planning rules to allow families to have two children, the Chinese...
Jul 29, 2016
In recent years, China’s slowing economy has led to a steady growth in labor unrest, with...
Feb 11, 2015
Bloomberg’s Li Hui and Keith Zhai report that while China’s poor often cannot afford...
Jan 23, 2015
China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission announced on Wednesday that the...
Sep 26, 2014
The China Report on the Development of the Silver Hair Industry revealed that Chinese businesses...
Jan 27, 2014
An aging population, changing lifestyles, and possibly pollution are driving up the number of...
Dec 27, 2013
Parents who have lost an only child prematurely, known as “shidu,” say they are...
Nov 16, 2013
On Friday, Beijing released the 20-page, 60-point ‘CCP Central Committee Resolution...
Oct 13, 2013
A 94-year-old woman in Fusheng, China has sued her children for not taking care of her in a...
Aug 21, 2013
Harvard lecturer and Brookings fellow Robert C. Pozen is the author of a recent policy paper...
Aug 1, 2013
At his Sinostand blog, Economic Observer’s Eric Fish argues that China faces bigger dangers than an economic crash: namely, severe water shortages and pollution, and an aging and gender-imbalanced population. I try to be...
Jul 9, 2013
Soon after China’s revised filial piety law requiring regular visits to aging parents took effect last Monday, entrepreneurs have started offering elder-care services on e-commerce platforms. From The Wall Street...
Jul 3, 2013
An amended law encouraging adult children to visit their parents went into effect on Monday in China. This legislative action can be seen to reflect the changes that rapid social and economic transformation are having on a...
Jul 1, 2013
An amended law took effect on Monday which requires adult children in China to visit their parents or face fines or jail time, though Louise Watt at the Associated Press reports that effectively implementing the new rules may be...
May 31, 2013
After a pilot launched in 2008, research for the landmark China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) began in 2011 with support from Peking University, the National Science Foundation of China, and the World Bank....
Mar 12, 2013
The State Council has announced that health and family planning as well as food and drug safety is undergoing reorganization in order to increase efficiency. According to The South China Morning Post, the Population and Family...
Jan 16, 2013
While China’s rise is often seen as a threat to other nations, Citigroup’s Peter Orszag argues that the world has more to fear from a Chinese slowdown than from continued growth. Furthermore, he writes, recent...
Nov 29, 2012
The former head of China’s National Population and Family Planning Commission suggests that the government is considering a relaxation of its one-child policy in the face of an ageing population. From Reuters: Proposed...