For decades, China enjoyed a role as the “world’s factory,” drawing upon its immense labor force to manufacture goods cheaply and quickly. As the number of working-age people in China drops ...

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don't ...

Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, the world’s second-largest economy is now grappling with one of the lowest ...

China’s extreme automation is a strength, but it’s also a response to the country’s most fundamental weakness: the impending ...

Chinas economy is grappling with intensifying challenges as mounting debt, persistent deflation, and an aging population ...

"In the next 50 years, China will have to face three population 'peaks,'" said Hu Angang, a professor at Qinghua University. More than 100 million rural Chinese have moved to the cities seeking work, ...

The impact on China’s long-term growth rate could imperil Beijing’s mission to become a global power to rival or replace the ...

Demographics drive Asia’s travel divide, with Japan favoring solo, traditional travel and India and China leaning mobile-first and family-focused. Japan has the world’s oldest population, with nearly ...

Dongfeng Gu and colleagues review community based cohort studies in China, finding strategies to improve the quality and scale of these studies in China and beyond Community based cohort studies ...