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The country saw 17.23 million births in 2017, compared to 17.86 million in the previous year. (Photo: Pixabay)

China sees births fall despite push for second child

Socioeconomic factors have more obviously influenced people's willingness to give birth and child-bearing behaviour.

20 Jan 2018 5:44 PM IST

A nurse feeds a newborn baby at a hospital in Fuyang, in central Chinas Anhui province. (Photo: AP)

China's baby blues

Chinese leaders want couples to have more babies, but local officials resist.

18 Feb 2019 8:35 PM IST

Well-rested and relaxed babies grow faster than those with less sleep. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

No baby boom in China as births fall by nearly a third in 2020

After decades of a 'one-child policy', Beijing changed the rules in 2016 to allow families to have two children

9 Feb 2021 10:33 AM IST

A file picture shows two Chinese babies. 2016 was the lunar year of the monkey considered a particularly auspicious zodiac sign to be born under. (Photo; AFP)

China births rise as one-child policy falls

China relaxed the one child policy' in 2015 after concerns about an ageing population.

24 Jan 2017 6:57 AM IST