China’s extreme automation is a strength, but it’s also a response to the country’s most fundamental weakness: the impending ...

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don't ...

"In the next 50 years, China will have to face three population 'peaks,'" said Hu Angang, a professor at Qinghua University. More than 100 million rural Chinese have moved to the cities seeking work, ...

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.

More than 1 billion Chinese citizens will participate in a once-in-a-decade census that will inform policymakers on demographic shifts in the world's most-populous but fast-ageing nation, and help ...