Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax ...

Starting January 1, 2026, Beijing will impose a tax on contraceptives, risking limiting access to condoms in a country where ...

Chinese authorities were once so fearful of overcrowding that it banned most families from having more than one child and ...

China has a new plan to coax citizens into having more babies: tax birth control. Starting Jan. 1, Beijing will slap a 13% ...

After a 30-year exemption, China is slapping a 13 per cent sales tax on condoms, birth control pills and devices, hoping to boost its declining birthrates and offset the long-term impact of an ageing ...

China has a birth-rate problem. It's also the 2nd-least affordable country in the world to raise a child, says a Beijing think tank. China is one of the world's most unaffordable places to raise a ...

Lawmakers submitted the draft Childcare Services Law to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress for an ...

China will cover all out-of-pocket medical expenses related to childbirth starting next year, as authorities intensify efforts to reverse the country’s ...

Demographers attribute China’s rapidly declining birth rate to the country’s strict COVID-19 restrictions, with some cities reporting double-digit drops. The Chinese government’s strict zero-COVID ...

She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it.