A town in northeast China has shrunk by a third since 2010. Here's one family's story

An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...
NextBigFuture

China Huge Aging and Population Problems Are Already Bad and Will Get Worse

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don’t know what will happen with future populations. However, the next 20 years are ...
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Chinese scientists use laser drones to count the country's trees — all 142.6 billion of them

Researchers have counted the number of trees in China and mapped their distribution across the country using a laser-based ...
The Hill

China’s robot revolution foreshadows its looming population collapse

The Telegraph reports that China is “terrifying” Western business executives. Chinese “dark factories” are so thoroughly automated that there is no need for lights on the assembly floor. “It’s the ...