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The Latest Breaking News on Chinese corporate leaders worry a push to have babies could hurt gender equality: 'If someone has to sacrifice in the family, it’s always the woman'

After an end to a challenging year, the Chinese abandoned its strict zero-Covid policy despite the country facing a surge in infections. This year, a sharp rebound in the economy is expected due to its reopening. Therefore, it could be an opportune time to add fundamentally strong Chinese stocks Hello…

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‘The last generation’: the young Chinese people vowing not to have children

Negative population growth that arrived a decade before forecasts has been exacerbated by Covid and restrictive government policies

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China's population decline is a result of decades of botched family planning measures and will have global implications

China’s population has fallen for the first time in 60 years and is set to be reduced by half by the end of the century. After declining for some years, China is now in what a government official called an “era of negative population growth”, with the national birth rate…

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Financial worries keep many Chinese at home

About 40% of Chinese travellers aren’t planning to venture overseas this year despite the sudden easing of restrictions, mainly because of the financial impact of Covid, according to a survey published on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

China's population is now inexorably shrinking, bringing forward the day the planet's population turns down

China’s National Bureau of Statistics has confirmed what researchers such as myself have long suspected – that 2022 was the year China’s population turned down, the first time that has happened since the great famine brought on by Chinese leader Mao Zedong in 1959-1961.

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Is a global recession really coming up?

The world's leading economists spent most of 2022 convincing themselves that, if the global economy was not already in a recession, it was about to fall into one. But with the year 2022 end, the global slump has been postponed to the present 2023.

Bangkok Post

Davos 2023: China recovery could be very quick - IMF's Gopinath

China could see a sharp recovery in economic growth from the second quarter onwards based on current infection trends after the dismantling of most COVID-19 restrictions, IMF Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath said on Wednesday.

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Why China’s shrinking population is a big deal -- counting the social, economic and political costs of an aging, smaller society

Throughout much of recorded human history, China has boasted the largest population in the world – and until recently, by some margin.

The Conversation

Why China's growth and population declines matter

The post-COVID world economy could be different from the one we've come to rely on.

Axios

Make it easier to raise children say many Chinese after population falls

If China wants to reverse a decline in population, more should be done to help families raise their children, according to Wei Chao, a 31-year-old mother of twin girls living in Shanghai, and many more parents interviewed by Reuters held the same view.

Reuters

Threats, advantages seen in China's shrinking population

For seven decades, China’s Communist Party has ruled the world’s most populous country

The Independent UK

Shanghai Composite Index Ended Nearly Flat on Wednesday

Shenzhen Component Index closed up 0.09%

Caixin Global

First Thing: China population falls for first time in more than 60 years

Shift marks start of a long period of population decline as China wrestles with demographic time bomb. Plus, Adidas denies revolutionary plan over Cambodia working conditions

The Guardian - UK

China's historic population decline raises possibility that India has already overtaken China in size

China's population declined in 2022, potentially confirming UN projections that India will overtake China this year.

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Evening Standard

China’s population declines for first time since 1961 as India set to become world’s most populous country

China had 850,000 fewer people at the end of 2022 than the previous year

Caixin Global

Shanghai Composite Index Fell 0.1% on Tuesday

Shenzhen Component Index closed up 0.13%

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China's economic growth falls to 3% in 2022 but slowly reviving

The world's No.2 economy grew by 3% in 2022, less than half of the previous year's rate, official data showed Tuesday as China faced pressure from anti-virus controls and a real estate slump.

Asharq Al-Awsat

China's Population Shrinks for 1st Time in Over 60 Years

China's population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades, official data showed Tuesday, as the world's most populous country faces a looming demographic crisis. The nation of 1.4 billion has seen birth rates plunge to record lows as its workforce ages, in a rapid decline…

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Reuters

Factbox-How China is seeking to boost its falling birth rate

China saw its population fall by roughly 850,000 last year - its first drop in six decades that marks the start of an expected long-term decline in citizen numbers with major economic consequences.

The Independent UK

Asian shares slip as China says economy slowed further

Asian shares are mostly lower after China reported its economy expanded at a 3% pace last year, less than half 2021's rate

Bangkok Post

China's economy grows at slowest pace in decades

BEIJING: China's economy grew last year at its slowest pace in four decades as it was hammered by Covid-19 lockdowns and a property crisis but the forecast-beating reading raised hopes for a strong recovery as it reopens.

Axios

China's population falls for first time in over 60 years

This marks a clear inflection point that will slowly but dramatically change Chinese society and politics over the next few decades.

Tribune News Service

China’s population starts shrinking, first drop since 1960s

China’s population started shrinking in 2022 for the first time in six decades, a milestone for the world’s second-largest economy, which is facing an increasingly serious demographic crisis.

Al Jazeera

China’s economy grows 3%, among worst performances on record

Official figures reflect toll of Beijing’s since-abandoned ‘zero COVID’ pandemic strategy.

The Independent UK

China’s economy grew 3% last year, not even half 2021's rate

China’s economic growth fell to 3% last year under pressure from antivirus controls and a real estate slump but is gradually reviving after restrictions that kept millions of people at home were lifted

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