(Zhao’s unexpected absence was... Marriage rates in China continued to plummet last year, deepening the country’s demographic crisis and highlighting the public’s changing attitudes towards ...

China is planning new measures to boost its flagging birth rate and address its growing elderly population, but one analyst warns that more action may be needed to prevent a demographic collapse.

A national political advisor has called on China to lower the legal marriage age to boost its declining birth rate—yet analysts tell Newsweek such a move is unlikely to sway young Chinese.