Dragons on display in Shanghai. A dragon image is often used to symbolize China itself.
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According to the Chinese zodiac signs, each year in the lunar cycle is associated with a particular animal. The cycle repeats every 12 years.
China’s population peaked, and is now falling.
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African countries can learn from China about how to design policies that anticipate major demographic changes in their societies.
Chinese families can now have more than one child, but the population is still in decline.
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China’s birth rate hit a record low in 2022.
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Stricter population controls in India could have disastrous consequences for women and minority communities.
For four decades, the Chinese government has restricted family size.
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China limited families to one child from 1980 to 2015 to curb population growth. The policy paid off economically for the country, but it left couples whose only child died grieving and impoverished.
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China will now allow couples to have up to three children – but what is stopping families from welcoming this new policy?
One’s enough to worry about.
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China wants its citizens to have more children. But they are reluctant to.
Your country needs you to procreate.
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There are signs China could drop its two-child policy in an attempt to boost population growth.
Slums like this one in Rio de Janeiro embody the problems Paul Ehrlich warned of in ‘The Population Bomb.’
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Fifty years ago biologist Paul Ehrlich published ‘The Population Bomb,’ an apocalyptic warning that overcrowding would lead to wars and famine. Here’s what the book got right and wrong.
Chinese President Xi Jinping presides over the opening ceremony of the 19th Party Congress.
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China’s surplus of unmarriageable men poses a stark dilemma for Xi and other leaders as they set the country’s economic course for the next five years.
Diana (Xiaojie) Lin as the mother in Little Emperors.
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China’s demographic experiment come to life in Little Emperors, but not always successfully.
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Involuntary bachelors, who fail to add fruit to their family tree are often referred to as “bare branches”. And the Chinese state has recently started to worry about them.
The research projected what would happen through to 2050 if fertility levels were to rise in response to China’s two-child policy.
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Analysis shows China’s GDP per capita would fall by 21% in 2050 under the new two-child policy.
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Incentives to encourage childbearing haven’t worked elsewhere in Asia – can they in China?
China: getting busier.
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China’s population policy shift has some worried – and at the heart of it is a philosophical dilemma.
Graduation at Fudan University in Shanghai. Education is an important instrument in building China’s global status.
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In China, education is more than a means to deliver high skilled labour. The country has constructed its education policy to demonstrate its ambition to become a global power.
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China’s population policy helped more women into university, creating a generation with higher aspirations.
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Enforcing the birth control policy left millions of children with no identity.
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The move to a ‘two-child policy’ is unlikely to boost population growth, which has been stalling for years now.
One of the victims of child abduction in China was rescued by authorites.
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The BBC has uncovered an open online market for children but this has been happening for years.