China's rollout of measures to boost its flagging birth rate remains patchy and inconsistent, a team of researchers has found ...

Data by YuWa found that raising a child through age 18 in China costs over 538,000 yuan ($76,000), which may put off many ...

China will impose a 13% tax on condoms and other contraceptives starting next year, ending a three-decade tax-exemption policy as the country struggles with a severe population decline.

These products had been exempt from VAT for the past three decades as China enforced its strict one-child policy and actively ...

Starting January 2026, under the newly revised Value-Added Tax Law, Chinese citizens will be required to pay a 13 per cent ...

The robots will guide travelers, haul boxes, and even swap their own batteries. Births in China, meanwhile, are still running ...

China will impose a value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and devices — including condoms — for the first time in three decades, its latest bid to reverse plunging birth rates that threaten to ...

Notably, China’s birth rate has been falling for the last three years, and in 2024 only 9.54 lakh babies were born, almost ...

Under the revised Value-Added Tax Law, a 13 per cent levy will apply to products that have been exempt since 1993, when the ...

Beijing has rolled out a series of pro-natalist policies, from offering cash handouts to improving childcare services, extending paternity and maternity leave.

China is offering couples a subsidy to have children. The country’s government will pay $500 per year until the child is three years old. The move comes as concerns about China’s birth rate grow. Some ...

Under the revised value-added tax law, consumers will pay a 13% levy on items that had been exempted since 1993, when China ...