Challenges for Children in China. Despite country-wide statistics, many children in China face critical threats to childhood – especially those “left behind” in remote, rural areas, including ethnic ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent study conducted by the World Bank found that incomes among rural Chinese -- about three-fourths of the total population -- have declined slightly in the years since China entered the ...

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.

That cosseted world is unimaginable to the 33 million children living and studying in China’s 100,000 rural boarding schools—a number roughly equal to two-thirds of all children enrolled in U ...

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.