BEIJING, Jan. 23 -- Fines imposed on Chinese who violate the country's one-child-only policy may be reduced for the poor, a top family planning official said Tuesday, as authorities stressed a ...

C hina’s one-child policy was not only cruel; it was a failure. Decades of shackling women to beds and forcing them to ...

China's Lost Children. Thousands of kids disappear annually; many are put on adoption market. By ABC News. May 2, 2008, 1:24 PM. ... mostly targeting the children of poor migrant workers.

The most recent statistics published by China's state-owned media showed that of China's top two schools, Peking University had a rural population of 16.3 percent in 1999 (down from 50 percent to ...

SHANGHAI, China — China said Wednesday that it had broken up a child-labor ring that provided children from poor inland areas to work in booming coastal cities, acknowledging that severe labor ...

Facing a rising crisis of children’s welfare in its vast and poor rural areas, China has issued a set of guidelines aimed at protecting children left behind by parents who work away from home to ...

China’s rapid economic development has caused a wide gap between rich and poor that has forced millions of workers to emigrate from rural areas to the country’s main cities. Since 1978, China ...

Beijing says it has met its goal of wiping out extreme poverty in China by the end of 2020. The top-down effort has disrupted untold individual lives.

Liu and his wife were themselves only children in a nation teeming with singletons because of China’s one-child policy, which was unveiled in 1979 as a quick fix for a poor, populous society.

Many in China have worried that poor children in rural areas — who have been the accused in some of the highest-profile cases — are being abandoned as a price of economic progress.