Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter which explores what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. “What are your parents’ names?” Fang, then a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long seen in the West as a byword for the Chinese Communist Party’s heavy-handedness, the one-child policy became a trope for ...

China’s birth rate hit rock bottom, one decade after it announced the end of its one-child policy, multiple outlets reported Monday. Total births in China plummeted to 5.63 per 1,000 people in 2025, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's masses, though, are getting to be less massive. And that’s a problem. Birth rate numbers released Monday, the lowest since ...

China announced last week it was ending its international adoption program, devastating hundreds of families in the U.S. in the process of adopting a child. "A lot of these families have persevered, ...

After China announced earlier this month that it is suspending international adoptions, Maze Felix, a 28-year-old Chinese adoptee, said they were struck with a heady mix of “anger, relief, grief, ...

This month marks 10 years since China ended its one-child policy in order to address an aging population and a shrinking workforce. The government eventually removed all limits on how many children ...

China’s announcement in September that it was ending international adoptions was a crushing blow for families awaiting the arrival of their adopted children. The policy change has now left more than ...

Fang, then a third grader, hemmed and hawed at the simple question as her teacher waited impatiently, unaware the 9-year-old was caught in a dilemma. Since preschool, Fang had been officially ...