5 h. ago Opinion | China embraced population control. The damage may be irreversible.

Opinion | China embraced population control. The damage may be irreversible.  The Washington Post

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12 h. ago China’s population falls again as births drop to lowest rate since 1949 revolution

China’s population falls again as births drop to lowest rate since 1949 revolution  Politico

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18 h. ago China’s Birth Rate Hits Record Low as Population Decline Deepens

China’s Birth Rate Hits Record Low as Population Decline Deepens  kurdistan24.net

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18 h. ago China's population falls again as births drop to lowest rate since 1949 communist revolution

China's population falls again as births drop to lowest rate since 1949 communist revolution  WRAL

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19 h. ago China's birth rate hits record low as population continues to shrink

China's birth rate hits record low as population continues to shrink  BBC

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19 h. ago China’s demographic alarms blare as births hit historic low and population shrinks again

China’s birth count plummeted to a record low last year, falling by about 10 million from its 2016 peak and slashing the total by more than half in less than a decade, as the country’s population shrank for a fourth consecutive year. Only 7.92 million babies were born in 2025, down 17 per cent from 9.54 million in 2024, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday. This marked the lowest birth figure since records began in 1949 and broke the previous record low set...

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19 h. ago Baby bust: China births plunge 17% in 2025 to historic low as population shrinks

Baby bust: China births plunge 17% in 2025 to historic low as population shrinks  South China Morning Post

Culture

21 h. ago China's population drops for fourth year as fewer babies born

China's population drops for fourth year as fewer babies born  Reuters

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22 h. ago China's population falls for a fourth straight year, with births at lowest in decades

China's population falls for a fourth straight year, with births at lowest in decades  NBC News

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23 h. ago China Birth Rate Hits Lowest Since 1949 in Blow to Baby Drive

China Birth Rate Hits Lowest Since 1949 in Blow to Baby Drive  Bloomberg.com

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40 h. ago China Manchu ethnic group childbirth tradition hangs bow and arrow for boys, red strip for girls

China’s Manchu people have quirky child-rearing traditions known as Luocao and Caisheng which include hanging a wooden bow outside the front door when a boy is born, or a red cloth strip for a girl. The Manchu ethnic group, historically known for founding the Qing dynasty (1644–1912), now lives across various regions of China. According to the China Statistical Yearbook 2021, their population exceeds 10 million. In Manchu tradition, the birth of a baby is referred to as luocao, which literally...

Politics

46 h. ago Could flying wind farms be the future of energy generation in China?

A giant airship launched in a densely populated area of southwestern China earlier this month has set social media on fire. Footage of the S2000, the world’s most powerful flying wind farm, in the skies above Yibin, Sichuan province, prompted comparisons with an alien spaceship or the airships that featured in the animated film Big Hero 6. The white airship – measuring 60 metres (200 feet) in length and a width and height of 40 metres – was filled with helium on the ground before ascent,...

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3 d. ago China’s population crash is so bad that it’s started taxing condoms and birth control pills

China’s population crash is so bad that it’s started taxing condoms and birth control pills  Fortune

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3 d. ago As families shrink, our primary relationship is increasingly with ourselves

More than 2,300 years ago, Aristotle mused in Politics that to live alone, a man must be a god or a beast, or words to that effect. I wonder what he would have thought of the popularity of China’s “Are You Dead?” app. For Aristotle, we are social animals, thriving in the “polis” in the company of family, friends and fellow citizens. The average mother had at least five children. Many homes housed three, even four, generations. Family life was noisy and crowded, full of companionship, contest and...

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4 d. ago China Levies VAT on Contraceptives to Tackle Population Decline

China Levies VAT on Contraceptives to Tackle Population Decline  조선일보

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5 d. ago China's homeless population seen surging, driven by youth job crisis

China's homeless population seen surging, driven by youth job crisis  upi.com

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5 d. ago Across China: Paid study spaces gaining popularity among China's dream

Across China: Paid study spaces gaining popularity among China's dream-seeking youth  Xinhua

Politics

7 d. ago Did a bowl of millet help end a migrant crisis in China 1,500 years ago?

Human migration is as old as history and as current as today’s headlines of law enforcement operations and tragedy. Amid the encounters, the question remains: how do strangers become a single people? Today, more than 90 per cent of China’s population identifies as Han Chinese, despite centuries of migration and upheaval. Historians once credited this unity to strong rulers, uniform writing and Confucius. But archaeologists in China are finding the answer in the bowl rather than the sword or pen....

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2 w. ago It’s HAL out there: Tencent AI chatbot tells user to ‘get lost’ in rare angry outburst

Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent Holdings apologised after its artificial intelligence chatbot Yuanbao was accused of “verbally insulting” a user, fuelling online debate about the risks posed by fast-evolving generative AI tools. Yuanbao is among China’s most popular AI chatbots. Embedded in Tencent’s WeChat and used by tens of millions of people each day, there have been no previous reports of the assistant generating insulting replies in user conversations. The complaint surfaced...

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2 w. ago Peng Peiyun’s Death: Reassessing the Figure Behind China’s Population Control Campaign (Part I)

Peng Peiyun’s Death: Reassessing the Figure Behind China’s Population Control Campaign (Part I)  Vision Times

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