Should China worry about its shrinking population?
Beijing can no longer rely on its demographic dividend to fuel growth. That may not be a bad thing. …
The number of Chinese people fell by 850,000 from the previous year to 1.4118 billion, the statistics showed. Its birth rate had been slowing for years, prompting a range of policies to try to slow this trend, including scrapping the country’s infamous one-child policy seven years ago.