China’s marriage rate is in steep decline. There were 6.1 million marriage registrations nationwide in 2024, down from 7.7 million the previous year. This decline has prompted Chen Songxi, a Chinese ...

Ming Gao receives funding from the Swedish Research Council. This research was produced with support from the Swedish Research Council grant “Moved Apart” (nr. 2022-01864). Ming Gao is a member of ...

The ever-growing list of government pro-natalist initiatives at local and national levels has so far failed to slow China’s demographic changes. For many men and women, marriage and child bearing ...

Single Chinese want to find love, but remain straitjacketed by expectations of what their partners should look like. Read ...

China is easing restrictions on marriage registration as part of a broad campaign to address its shrinking population. New rules make it easier for couples to marry by reducing bureaucratic hurdles ...