State labor programs were aimed at lifting one of the nation’s poorest regions out of poverty, but they have also served as a ...

Once derided for its slower pace, Chengdu has a surging population and booming real estate market as workers look beyond ...

By the end of 2024, China's urbanization rate reached 67 percent, with 940 million people living in urban areas, according to ...

HONG KONG: China's population fell for ... an increase of 10.83 million people living in urban areas to 943.3 million in total, while its rural population fell 12.22 million to 464.78 million.

And a big reason appears to be China’s household-registration system, which since the 1950s has divided the population into rural or urban and makes it hard for rural workers to take their ...

China has launched a nationwide survey to monitor population changes and address declining birth rates and aging concerns. China’s National Bureau of Statistics has announced a nationwide sample ...

Rural areas are likely to ... as Japan did since the 1980s. India’s population growth is also projected to fall, but much slower. The effects of China’s one-child policy are visible in the population ...

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 ...

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 ...