[Photo/Xinhua] In 2024, China recorded a maternal mortality rate of ... mortality rates among infants and children under five caused by birth defects have each dropped by more than 30 percent.

In 2024, China recorded a maternal mortality rate of 14.3 per 100,000 ... and under-five-year-old child mortality caused by birth defects have both decreased by over 30 percent compared to ...

Hi it’s Karoline in Singapore. Drastically low birth rates are a problem many Asian countries share, but few have seen a more ...

Though couples in the country of 1.4billion have been allowed to have up to three children since 2021, China's death rate has outnumbered ... also shows China's birth rate at 1.2 births per ...

A Chinese city has introduced a range of childcare subsidies – including a daily cup of free milk for new mothers – in a bid to bolster the country’s declining birth rate. The efforts in ...

But given the pace of population decline and ageing in China, the impact of the fast-paced, expensive city life on birth rates should be treated with more urgency by Beijing, demographers say.

So alarming is this demographic reality that early this month, Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced that the government will be rolling out new policies to boost the birth rate. But the marriage ...

A city in northern China has promised cash rewards in a latest effort to boost birth rate and cope with the ageing society. Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region ...

Hohhot is not the only city using direct financial incentives to boost birth rates. According to CCTV News, Tianmen in Central China's Hubei Province has increased number of newborns by 17 percent ...

Hohhot: A city in northern China has promised cash rewards in a latest effort to boost birth rate and cope with the ageing society. Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous ...