This rust-belt hub helped fuel China’s economic rise. Now, it offers a view of China’s future—in which eroding growth collides with a ballooning elderly population and a shortfall in babies. Once ...

China has taken another step to boost the consumption of elderly care services and improve the well-being of senior residents ...

FUSHUN, China—This rust-belt hub helped fuel China’s economic rise. Now, it offers a view of China’s future—in which eroding growth collides with a ballooning elderly population and a ...

China has a rapidly aging population. Last year, about 297 million people were aged 60 or above, over one-fifth of the ...

Five central departments, including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance and the ...

China’s population is shrinking and ageing, a process that will continue apace in 2025. The total fertility rate, or the average births per woman, has fallen to 1.1, far below the 2.1 needed to ...

Aging populations are a global phenomenon, but the issue is particularly stark in China due to the legacy ... “They need to solve the pension problem now because this is when they still have ...

China has a rapidly aging population. Last year ... China's also working to tackle the problem of dementia, providing cognitive screening tests and training staff who work in memory clinics ...

But the number of new births fell for the fourth consecutive year in 2020, adding to concerns about China’s ageing population, with the demographic data set to have far-reaching social policy ...