The latest new and comment on China's one-child policy
July 2024
Women's right to choose
Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China
The Guardian documentary
Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China
January 2023
China’s shrinking population: what it means for the rest of the world - expert panel
‘The last generation’: the young Chinese people vowing not to have children
November 2021
China: tensions in the Indo-Pacific
Xi Jinping has rewritten China’s history, but even he can’t predict its global future
Rana Mitter
The Communist party has anointed him the most powerful leader since Mao, but how will he deal with drying deserts and an ageing society?
December 2019
Single woman sues Chinese hospital for refusal to freeze eggs
Teresa Xu says doctor told her to hurry up and get married before having children
June 2019
The first book interview
From foot-binding to feminism: a millennial charts China's rapid change
Karoline Kan’s memoir Under Red Skies charts the very different lives of three generations of women in her family. She talks about a giddying journey
September 2018
China’s lost little emperors... how the ‘one-child policy’ will haunt the country for decades
Mei Fong
Encouraging people to have more children is an abrupt reversal of the previous policy
September 2017
'My parents say hurry up and find a girl': China's millions of lonely 'leftover men'
By 2020 there will be 30 million more young men than women in China. In a one-party state that values social stability above all, this disaffected and frustrated element of the population is cause for concern
August 2017
Trafficking in focus
'I hope you’re ready to get married': in search of Vietnam's kidnapped brides
Phượng’s daughter was abducted from her village in Vietnam and sold into a forced marriage in China. Could she track her down – starting on Facebook?
November 2015
Chinese media fights social exclusion of those born outside one-child policy
Rethinking prosperity
Can the planet handle China's new two-child policy?
Andrew Winston
The Observer view on Britain and China’s population challenges
China’s brutal one-child policy shaped how millions lived, loved and died
Mei Fong
October 2015
China's one-child policy – timeline
China's Communist party has scrapped its one-child policy, allowing all couples to have two children for the first time in more than three decades
