China's marriage rate is in steep decline. There were 6.1 million marriage registrations nationwide in 2024, down from 7.7 ...

From pragmatic decisions such as the need for a city apartment as a prerequisite for marriage, to unions bonded by only love ...

Shandong Shuntian was not the first company to try to dictate its employees’ personal lives amid rising concern about China’s plummeting marriage and birth rates. Weeks earlier, a popular supermarket ...

A Chinese company was pulled up by officials ... it said that employees should live by these values in their own lives, and that marriage and children were the road to doing so.

Here are some of this year's proposals: China is grappling with a slowing ... The CPCC is also mulling a proposal that would lower the marriage age -- currently 22 for men and 20 for women ...

Shandong Shuntian was not the first company to try to dictate its employees’ personal lives amid rising concern about China’s plummeting marriage and birth rates. Weeks earlier, a popular ...

A Chinese company was pulled up by officials after backlash ... Further, it said that employees should live by these values in their own lives, and that marriage and children were the road to doing so ...

Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. China’s top political advisory body will consider a proposal to lower the country’s marriage ...

Marriage woes – China’s divorce rate has risen in recent decades, and marriages have been on the decline too — falling by a fifth in 2024, according to official data. For the fifth straight ...