Zheng Yajun, a mainland-born PhD graduate of the University of Hong Kong, knows from experience how difficult it is to break through China’s urban ... top of the rural student pyramid.

Zheng said the education gap was a key manifestation of the urban-rural divide. He added that if China's population declines ... the top of the rural student pyramid, while the situation seems ...

“We’ll make it easier for [rural] people to receive an urban hukou,” the notice ... 02:14 Chinese reluctant to have children as China reports first population fall in 61 years Chinese ...

In a newly released report, Human Rights Watch says China ... rural Tibetans are relocated to areas they are not familiar with culturally, and one of the requirements for them to find jobs in ...

China’s population in 1980 was around 980 million. It was distributed in the classic pyramid shape of a growing ... which is helping older adults in urban communities to remain in their own ...

China’s latest demographic statistics show that the phenomenon of marrying later has spread from urban areas to rural ... sex ratio of marriageable population in rural areas.

Liu and her husband Deng Jie are members of China’s first generation of only children. Born in 1977 – only a year after the country instituted a one-child limit for most urban households ...

In this article, we will take a look at the 20 countries with the largest urban population ... urban households in China typically earn around three times more than rural households.