China will cover all out-of-pocket expenses related to childbirth next year, said the country's national healthcare security ...

She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it.

China’s national healthcare security administration has announced a major shift in policy as it intends to fully cover all ...

Analysts say central government moves this year show China's birth rate is being treated as a national priority.

China is removing its tax exemption on contraceptives in an effort to boost birth rates. But some are concerned that it penalizes women, single, and working-class people for not having children.

HONG KONG (Reuters) -China said that by the end of this year all tertiary level hospitals must offer epidural anaesthesia during childbirth, a move it said would help promote a "friendly childbearing ...

China will reimburse all childbirth-related medical expenses from 2026, aiming to boost birth rates and support young ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Chinese national political adviser has recommended lowering the legal age for marriage to 18 to boost fertility chances in the face of a declining population and "unleash ...

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Who do you think is stronger and tougher -- men or women? It's debatable, of course, unless we're talking about childbirth. To show just how much pain women can take, doctors in China wired men to a ...