China may be lifting longstanding restrictions on the number of children a household is permitted to have, as the country looks to reforms its laws. While the communist founder of the People's ...

In late October, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the National Women’s Congress that “We should actively foster a new type of marriage and childbearing culture.” Such a statement is rich coming from ...

Corrections and clarifications: This story has been updated to reflect that a previous draft of the bill contained punishments of fine or detainment. Under a proposed law in China, it's not just the ...

China has expanded the number of children married couples can have to three. Home to nearly 1.4 billion people—or more than one billion more people than the US—the country is anxious about its future.

Scott Tong is a Marketplace correspondent based in Washington, and was Marketplace's founding China bureau chief. His latest venture is more personal. In his new book "A Village with My Name: A Family ...

Anastasia Lin may never see her family in China again. Shortly after winning the Miss World Canada title in 2015, Beijing deemed China-born Lin "persona non grata" — a powerful diplomatic term that ...

BEIJING—China has abolished the three departments responsible for enforcing family-planning policies, in what could be another sign the government is planning to further ease birth restrictions. The ...

This week, Beijing announced that married couples will be allowed to have three children, up from a cap of two set in 2016. The ruling Communist Party made the announcement following a Politburo ...

This was written by Bloomberg News. It first appeared on the Bloomberg Terminal. For a country that’s adding billionaires at the world’s fastest pace, China doesn’t have many businesses that ...