For decades, China was synonymous with birth control, enforced, incentivised and institutionalised under its infamous one-child policy. Now, in a striking reversal, the Xi Jinping-led country has made ...

China is grappling with a persistent population decline, despite a decade of efforts to encourage more births following the abandonment of its stringent one-child policy. Authorities have introduced a ...

January 1, 2026, marks ten years since China formally scrapped its notorious one-child policy, a sweeping social experiment that shaped family life for more than three decades. The decision to end it ...

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 ...