Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time and the numbers for having another child just ...

China faces a demographic crisis ten years after ending its one-child policy. Birth rates remain low, and the population is ...

China's one-child policy, enforced nationwide from 1979, is facing renewed criticism as they confronts mounting pressure to ...

A child’s death is devastating to all parents. But for Chinese parents, losing an only child can add financial ruin to emotional devastation. That’s one conclusion of a research project on parental ...

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.

The death of Peng Peiyun, a former senior Chinese official who oversaw the countrys one-child policy for a decade, has ...

Peng died on December 21 in Beijing. In its official obituary, the Chinese Communist Party described her as an “outstanding ...

China has had a population decline for the second straight year. It’s a symptom of a much bigger issue. After seven years of a dropping birthrate and an increasing death rate, the nation is headed ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Ryan Knutson: In the decades after World War Two, China was facing rapid ...

The death of a former head of China’s one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned ...

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. “What are your parents’ names?” Fang, then a ...