Guangdong, the largest province by gross domestic product, has the third lowest portion of its population aged 60 or over at 12.73 per cent, after Tibet and Xinjiang. Last year, China’s ...

The regions that reported population growth are the Xinjiang Uygur and Xizang autonomous regions, and Shaanxi province in western China; Zhejiang, Anhui and Fujian provinces in the east ...

China’s population has slowed significantly and is expected to start to shrink ahead of 2025, the state-backed Global Times reported, citing a senior health official. Birth data released late on ...

The last time China’s population decreased was in 1961 ... with employers often reluctant to pay maternity leave. Some cities and provinces have begun introducing measures such as paternity ...

Home to more than 120 million people, Guangdong is China’s most populous province, followed by Shandong and Henan. Its real-time population is around 150 million, according to official data ...

China's central government ... kilometers and has a total population reaching 368 million. As choreographed by the country's policymakers, the six central provinces should advance reforms for ...

Only China's southern Guangdong province has had more than 1 million new births, it said. China is battling to reverse a rapid shrinkage in natural population growth as many young people opt not ...