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As China’s population ages and its workforce shrinks, the country is facing some big demographic challenges. Among them: encouraging couples to have more children and encouraging young people to get married. According to data released last week, more than half of Chinese between the ages of 25 and 29 remained unmarried in 2023. That number…

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Last year, China's population started shrinking for the first time in 60 years, spurring renewed fervor to facilitate marriages and boost birth rates.

Last year, China's population started shrinking for the first time in 60 years, spurring renewed fervor to facilitate marriages and boost birth rates.

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Officials in one part of China are urging people to get married at a young age, with cash as an incentive. Couples who marry in Zhejiang province's Changshan County when the...

China is implementing unconventional measures to control its population growth, including setting the legal marriage age at 22 for men and 20 for women. In the Changshan district, newlywed couples receive a financial incentive if the groom marries a woman aged 25 or younger. Despite imposing restrictions, the government is also trying to boost marriage rates in certain regions to increase the overall population. However, there has been a decline in marriage rates in China since the 1970s, as man...

The National Bureau of Statistics reported China's first population decline in six decades last year.