Last week, the Chinese government announced that it will raise the retirement age. The long-expected move is deeply unpopular but, the government holds, necessary to relieve strain on China’s work force and pension funds. The...
After adjusting family planning rules to allow families to have two children, the Chinese...
In recent years, China’s slowing economy has led to a steady growth in labor unrest, with...
Bloomberg’s Li Hui and Keith Zhai report that while China’s poor often cannot afford...
China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission announced on Wednesday that the...
The China Report on the Development of the Silver Hair Industry revealed that Chinese businesses...
An aging population, changing lifestyles, and possibly pollution are driving up the number of...
Parents who have lost an only child prematurely, known as “shidu,” say they are...
On Friday, Beijing released the 20-page, 60-point ‘CCP Central Committee Resolution...
A 94-year-old woman in Fusheng, China has sued her children for not taking care of her in a...
Harvard lecturer and Brookings fellow Robert C. Pozen is the author of a recent policy paper...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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