China is experiencing unprecedented, and probably irreversible, population decline that will hamper its economic growth and its ambitions to rival the United States.

Chinese stock markets are putting on a brave face and have recently gone up thanks to a push from the government. Still, the ...

Beijing is fighting to limit the damage from a pattern of price wars and excess capacity across multiple industries.

China’s factories welcomed 295,000 newly installed industrial robots last year, easing fears the nation’s manufacturing ...

China is planning to include new measures to encourage more births and address its rapidly ageing population as part of its new 2021-2025 "five-year plan", state media reported on Monday.

Apollo Global Management’s chief economist, Torsten Sløk, has spotlighted a striking demographic transformation unfolding in China. According to Sløk, the country’s working-age population — once a ...

China has raised the upper hiring age for civil services to tackle its “curse of 35.” India’s unspoken bias against older ...

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