China’s birth rate hit rock bottom, one decade after it announced the end of its one-child policy, multiple outlets reported Monday. Total births in China plummeted to 5.63 per 1,000 people in 2025, ...

The death of a former head of China's one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned policy on social media this week. State media praised Peng Peiyun, head of China ...

BEIJING (AP) — China's one-child policy, one of the harshest attempts at population control the world has seen, forced abortions on women, made sterilization widespread and led to baby daughters being ...

Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time. As the 30-year-old from Beijing and his wife consider whether to have a second child, they face a question of resources.

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. By Chris Buckley Peng ...

Dec. 21 (Asia Today) --China's one-child policy, enforced nationwide from 1979 and maintained for decades, is facing renewed criticism as the country confronts mounting pressure to care for aging ...

BEIJING (AP) — China’s one-child policy, one of the harshest attempts at population control the world has seen, forced abortions on women, made sterilization widespread and led to baby daughters being ...