China introduces 13% tax on contraceptives while exempting childcare services as global superpower battles sustained ...

For one thing, demographic decline will put increasing pressure on the country’s military. Today, with more than 2 million ...

Contraceptives are now subject to a 13 percent value-added tax, while services related to childcare and marriage are exempt.

People in China will pay a 13% sales tax on contraceptives from 1 January, while childcare services will be exempt, as the ...

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

And despite the significant amount of resources some governments have thrown at the problem, there have been few success stories so far. China’s total fertility rate, or births per woman during her ...

Welkin Lei has been doing some paper-napkin calculations in his spare time and the numbers for having another child just don’t add up.

Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world's second most populous nation, ...

Despite a series of incentives aimed at encouraging couples to have more children, China's population has continued to fall.

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