In just six years, the number of Chinese people getting married for the first time has fallen by a crushing 41% – partly due to changing attitudes to marriage, especially among women.

Marriage, overall, is less popular in China, sparking concerns about a demographic crisis. In 2022, China recorded 6.83 million marriage registrations — the lowest number since this data began ...

Marriage on the rocks in China as women rethink their options and Covid-19 limits take toll. In 2021, the lowest number of couples tied the knot since records began in 1986; ...

China's marriage rate is hitting record lows, and Beijing is struggling to stop the freefall. As China modernizes, more women are rejecting marriage in pursuit of financial freedom. That's led to ...

The China Population and Development Research Center, a government-backed institution, said the number of children per woman in China was the lowest among countries with populations over 100 million.

A clear example of this shift is the number of couples in two-sided marriages that choose to live with the woman’s parents. During my research, I stayed with the parents of Qiu Shuang, a young woman ...

WATCH: Couple behind China's first gay marriage case has a powerful message for the LGBT community. ... There are at least 16 million women married to gay men in China, ...

China once had a one-child policy — now it wants couples to have more children At a marriage market in Shanghai, ... Qian Lu told us that Chinese women get stuck with more housework than men do.

Much of the marriage decline results from China's one-child policy. Ended formally in January after 35 years, the policy accelerated a decline in the country's birthrate.