China Enforced Strict Population Controls for Decades. Encouraging Births Is Far Harder

China’s population has declined for three straight years. Even a small baby bump during 2024’s auspicious Year of the Dragon ...
The Economist

Tianmen is China’s test site for baby-boosting policies

On its current trajectory, according to projections from the UN, China’s population will halve in size by 2100, which is ...

A town in northeast China has shrunk by a third since 2010. Here's one family's story

An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...
Yahoo

China stops foreign adoptions of its children after three decades

HONG KONG (Reuters) - 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. More ...
PBS

China’s foreign adoption ban leaves hundreds of children and families in limbo

China’s announcement in September that it was ending international adoptions was a crushing blow for families awaiting the arrival of their adopted children. The policy change has now left more than ...
The Courier-Journal

OPINION: A mother's plea to China's president: Let my adopted daughter come home

When China abruptly announced on September 4 that it had terminated its longstanding international adoption program, it left in limbo hundreds of children whose adoptions were still pending, including ...
The Hill

When nations clash, children suffer: Unpacking China’s adoption ban

On Sept. 4, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs announced that China would no longer carry out foreign adoption work, except for a few narrow exceptions. In turn, the U.S. Department of State notified ...