A senior government adviser projected China’s birth rate to hold steady at about 10 million per year, a figure that will add to a greater urgency for care services as the broader population ages.

The middle-class households that drove China’s historic wave of international students are now re-evaluating, as businesses have closed and domestic alternatives have become more appealing.

As China’s birth rate drops amid soaring childcare costs, more millennials are choosing careers, pets and partying over marriage and children, disrupting traditional gender and family dynamics.

Slow recovery of travel sector expected to have wider implications on Chinese economy.

The National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday period has sparked a flurry of activity, and consumption and tourism have reached multi-year highs. But time will tell whether the boom is sustainable in the long run.

Organisers of the four-day event in Nanyang city in Henan admit thieves targeted some festival goers, but downplay the scale of the problem.

A global evaluation of 8,000 species shows 2 out of every 5 amphibians ‘are still in trouble’ from habitat loss, climate change.

A Chinese prodigy, 28, who achieved university admission at 10, now believes ‘doing nothing’ is the key to lifelong happiness while still depending on his parents financially.

To cope with higher demand and a reduction in government funding, public universities in China are passing on some of the costs to students – adding another burden to cash-strapped families.

A sprawling illegal waste dump, festering for eight years despite repeated complaints from locals, has become a focal point in a government push to stop the misuse of agricultural land.

A devoted Chinese father spent five days in custody for faking a paternity test to enroll his daughter in school after discovering the girl was not his biological child.

From radiation readings at the Fukushima power plant not adding up to Singapore dethroning Hong Kong as the world’s freest economy, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

Chinese blockbuster No More Bets focuses on the very real issue of phone scammers tricking people into working in illegal Southeast Asian call centres – but is almost laughably bad.

More than 28 million people will retire in China this year, and while Beijing has already said it will raise retirement ages, no timetable has been released.

Bangkok is only a five-hour flight from Beijing, and Thailand’s tourism authorities actively promote it as among the region’s most open destinations to LGBTQ people.

China’s southern metropolis of Shenzhen is the only mainland city where individuals can apply for bankruptcy, but it’s not easy, as authorities seem to frown on debt forgiveness.

China has not become the global No 1 in chess by accident. It’s taken dedication, decades of planning, and help from neighbours. Its meaning extends beyond the sport, a leading figure in chess says.

The mainland’s ever-resourceful younger generation has created their own online slang to cope with and describe modern life, and here the Post offers you the first installment of our guide to the new “language” of China.

Expats living in China will continue to enjoy tax waivers on rent, language training and children’s education as Beijing pushes to attract more foreign capital amid the overall economic slowdown.