Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax ...

For many Chinese citizens, the move feels contradictory. The same state that is urging people to marry and have children is ...

Chinese people will pay a 13% sales tax on contraceptives from 1 January, while childcare services will be exempt, as the ...

From January 1, people in China will be charged a 13% sales tax on contraceptives, even as childcare services are made ...

An overhaul of the tax system announced late last year removes many exemptions that were in place since 1994, when China was ...

A 13% tax on contraceptives was introduced by China today in an effort to boost the country’s birth rate. Items such as ...

Chinese authorities were once so fearful of overcrowding that it banned most families from having more than one child and ...

Ten years after scrapping its controversial one-child policy, China’s policymakers are scrambling to reverse the country’s ...

After a 30-year exemption, China is slapping a 13 per cent sales tax on condoms, birth control pills and devices, hoping to boost its declining birthrates and offset the long-term impact of an ageing ...

Starting January 1, Beijing will impose a tax on contraceptives, risking limiting access to condoms in a country where 97% of ...

China has a birth-rate problem. It's also the 2nd-least affordable country in the world to raise a child, says a Beijing think tank. China is one of the world's most unaffordable places to raise a ...

Lawmakers submitted the draft Childcare Services Law to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress for an ...