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China Stops Foreign Adoptions Of Its Children After 3 Decades
China will no longer send children overseas for adoption, the government said, overturning a more than three-decade rule that was rooted in its once strict one-child policy.
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Affordable Goods, Pricey Parenthood: China Tops List As Most Expensive Place To Raise Children
China ranks among priciest for child-rearing, impacting low fertility, driven by disproportionate effects on women.
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As China's Birth Rate Falls, College Students Given A Week Off To "Fall In Love": Report
In April, nine institutions in China claim to be offering students a week off to "fall in love."
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"This Hurts Forever": Woman Shares Her Mother's Heartbreaking Tale Under China's One-Child Policy
A woman took to Twitter to share a heartbreaking story of her mother when she was forced to send her two-month-old daughter to her relative because of the policy.
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China's Population Shrinking For The First Time In 60 Years. Here's Why
The last time China's population declined was in 1960, as the country battled the worst famine in its modern history, caused by the disastrous Mao Zedong agricultural policy known as the Great Leap Forward.
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Alarmed By Ageing Population, China Scrambles To Lift Birth Rate
China was for decades preoccupied with the prospect of runaway population growth and imposed a strict one-child policy from 1980 to 2015 to keep numbers in check. But now the UN expects China's population to shrink from next year.
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China Delays Retirement As 1-Child Policy Raises Pension Dues: Report
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is delaying the retirement age of its government employees as the draconian one-child policy bears its long-term effects in the form of an ageing population accompanied by increased state expenditure on pensions
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China Allows Couples To Have Three Children: Report
China has further relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have a maximum of three children after a recent census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media Xinhua reported Monday.
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China May Scrap Two-Child Policy, Amid Ageing Population: Report
China appears poised to scrap its two-child policy, with a state-run newspaper Monday citing a draft civil code that would overhaul decades of controversial family-planning rules.
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Now, 'One Dog Policy' In This Chinese City
Nearly two years after China got rid of its one-child policy, a city in China has a similar policy but for a different section of the population - its canines.
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Researcher Claims That India, Not China, Is The World's Most Populous Nation
What's the most populous nation in the world? For years, the answer to that question was simple and rarely disputed: China. But this week an academic has sparked widespread discussion around the world by making a bold claim - that China's official population estimates were wrong and in fact India was now the world's largest country.
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Born Again: Baby Boom After China Ends One-Child Rule
As soon as China abandoned its one-child policy a year ago, Zheng Xiaoyu and her husband started trying for a sibling for their nine-year-old son.
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China's 'Missing Girls' Theory Likely Far Overblown: Study
The theory that China's one-child policy has led to about 30 to 60 million "missing girls" which has created a gender imbalance in the world's most populous country is likely far overblown, a new study claims.
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Chinese Parents Protest To Get 2nd Children Registered
Chinese parents who bore children outside the country's one-child policy have protested outside the family planning commission in a bid to have their fines canceled.
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China's New 2 Child Policy Law Takes Effect
Married couples in China will from today be allowed to have two children, after concerns over an ageing population and shrinking workforce ushered in an end to the country's controversial one-child policy.
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China Stops Foreign Adoptions Of Its Children After 3 Decades
China will no longer send children overseas for adoption, the government said, overturning a more than three-decade rule that was rooted in its once strict one-child policy.
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Affordable Goods, Pricey Parenthood: China Tops List As Most Expensive Place To Raise Children
China ranks among priciest for child-rearing, impacting low fertility, driven by disproportionate effects on women.
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As China's Birth Rate Falls, College Students Given A Week Off To "Fall In Love": Report
In April, nine institutions in China claim to be offering students a week off to "fall in love."
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"This Hurts Forever": Woman Shares Her Mother's Heartbreaking Tale Under China's One-Child Policy
A woman took to Twitter to share a heartbreaking story of her mother when she was forced to send her two-month-old daughter to her relative because of the policy.
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China's Population Shrinking For The First Time In 60 Years. Here's Why
The last time China's population declined was in 1960, as the country battled the worst famine in its modern history, caused by the disastrous Mao Zedong agricultural policy known as the Great Leap Forward.
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Alarmed By Ageing Population, China Scrambles To Lift Birth Rate
China was for decades preoccupied with the prospect of runaway population growth and imposed a strict one-child policy from 1980 to 2015 to keep numbers in check. But now the UN expects China's population to shrink from next year.
-
China Delays Retirement As 1-Child Policy Raises Pension Dues: Report
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is delaying the retirement age of its government employees as the draconian one-child policy bears its long-term effects in the form of an ageing population accompanied by increased state expenditure on pensions
-
China Allows Couples To Have Three Children: Report
China has further relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have a maximum of three children after a recent census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media Xinhua reported Monday.
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China May Scrap Two-Child Policy, Amid Ageing Population: Report
China appears poised to scrap its two-child policy, with a state-run newspaper Monday citing a draft civil code that would overhaul decades of controversial family-planning rules.
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Now, 'One Dog Policy' In This Chinese City
Nearly two years after China got rid of its one-child policy, a city in China has a similar policy but for a different section of the population - its canines.
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Researcher Claims That India, Not China, Is The World's Most Populous Nation
What's the most populous nation in the world? For years, the answer to that question was simple and rarely disputed: China. But this week an academic has sparked widespread discussion around the world by making a bold claim - that China's official population estimates were wrong and in fact India was now the world's largest country.
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Born Again: Baby Boom After China Ends One-Child Rule
As soon as China abandoned its one-child policy a year ago, Zheng Xiaoyu and her husband started trying for a sibling for their nine-year-old son.
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China's 'Missing Girls' Theory Likely Far Overblown: Study
The theory that China's one-child policy has led to about 30 to 60 million "missing girls" which has created a gender imbalance in the world's most populous country is likely far overblown, a new study claims.
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Chinese Parents Protest To Get 2nd Children Registered
Chinese parents who bore children outside the country's one-child policy have protested outside the family planning commission in a bid to have their fines canceled.
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China's New 2 Child Policy Law Takes Effect
Married couples in China will from today be allowed to have two children, after concerns over an ageing population and shrinking workforce ushered in an end to the country's controversial one-child policy.
