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China’s efforts to bolster birth rates have yet to address the core reasons for their rapid decline, according to analysts. Even though the country started easing its stringent one-child policy [...]

Intergenerational relationships that highlight learning characteristics are created in interpersonal conflicts and lifelong education. Realizing the high-quality development of intergenerational [...]

The social changes in the new century and the shifting concept of filial piety have jointly shaped the unique intergenerational relationships in China. Intergenerational relationships are closely [...]

Many-child policies are associated with a moderate increase in fertility especially for women in urban areas and older women. However, they have lost the ability to control birth since 2017. [...]

Decades of a one-child policy led to a 4-2-1 problem, in which a sole young adult must become the breadwinner for not only his two parents but also his four grandparents. [Chad de Guzman – [...]

Housing has become unaffordable for most young people in large cities amid the sluggish economic recovery, with 11.58 million college graduates set to enter China’s workforce this year. [Meredith [...]

COVID-19 pandemic will further inhibit residents’ intention to have a third child by affecting their childcare arrangements, increasing their childcare costs, and increasing their exposure [...]

Parental risk screening can be used to recognize poor nurturing care in primary health care settings. Targeted interventions are warranted to improve nurturing care for optimal early childhood [...]

Economists say that the current pension system, which relies on a shrinking active workforce to pay the pensions of a growing number of retirees, is unsustainable and needs to be reformed. [World [...]

China’s demographic shift is worrying policymakers but in the short term, the labor force remains sufficient and business opportunities are emerging in new subsectors. [Yi Wu – China [...]