With the end of pandemic control measures severely reducing the demand for medical testing services, China’s laboratories are facing massive declines in revenue and laying off large portions of their staff.

China’s oldest pole dancer loves the hobby that she started 14 years ago, she says it improves her health and she intends to carry on throughout her 80s.

A meeting of political officials and experts has been convened to propose new ways to boost dropping fertility rates, as recent policies have made little headway in encouraging births.

Many retirees in China are bucking old trends by moving either domestically or overseas to be with their families. But, as the Post finds out, the move is not without its difficulties.

A court in China has awarded a man five properties he was owed after diligently caring for a solitary elderly man for 12 years.

Dr Pamela Lee, faculty of medicine’s assistant dean, says restructured curriculum will take place October and affect year 4 students.

A woman in has been detained and accused of hiding her father’s corpse for years to collect his military pension.

Over-50s now make up almost a third of China’s vast migrant workforce, while the number aged under 30 has dropped over the past five years

After a stretch of trials in select Chinese cities, there is rising urgency to rapidly expand use of the underperforming retirement accounts as demographic challenges mount.

A retired woman in China who was feeling the aches and pains of old age has decided to improve her fitness by following a regular exercise regime from which she is reaping immense benefits.

A Chinese couple in their 80s who were once university sweethearts, but parted decades ago, have fallen in love all over again and celebrated a joyful wedding ceremony.

Filial piety has been at the core of China’s elderly care system for centuries, but as society rapidly changes, new avenues are being explored to help make sure the country’s elderly are taken care of in their twilight years.

An elderly man in China who recently died left behind a home in which his thoughts and feelings were recorded as neatly written inscriptions on the walls and furniture.

As well as programmes in industry and education, local governments are encouraged to provide perks, including incentives in housing, start-up investment and schooling and jobs for the family of digital workers.

Study finds disparity between men and women has grown in China, with researchers seeing the ‘magnitude of the ‘she-cession’, where the Covid-induced economic slowdown disproportionately impacted the female labour force.

To meet the needs of its ageing population, China will offer more in subsidies for new care facilities and expand existing networks to accommodate children and the elderly.

Couple were discovered unconscious when helper went into man’s bedroom to help him change a diaper.

China’s state health insurance system regulator plays down concerns over a fall in the number of participants in the voluntary urban and rural residents’ scheme.

China registers 7.68 million newlywed couples, up 845,000 from the previous year in what analysts say is sign of post-pandemic wedding rebound.

China’s northern Inner Mongolia autonomous region, which borders Russia and Mongolia, is concerned about so-called hollowing out amid an exodus of young people impacting economic development and national security.

The figure, which marks a rise of 100 million over five years, was released at a time when the authorities are looking to domestic consumption to boost growth.

Chinese researchers have found the country’s rural population is struggling to keep up with their urban peers in terms of lifestyle, hampered by relative underdevelopment in social resources and a lack of job prospects in cities.

China’s demographic structure is gradually shifting towards an inverted pyramid shape as its population is greying faster, central bank adviser Cai Fang says.

Recent findings from the American Chamber of Commerce in South China found that Chinese firms were much more keen on ramping up investments, but most US firms still plan to as well.