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Liyan Qi

ARTICLES BY LIYAN QI

Skyrocketing costs of child rearing in China discourage couples from having children. (AFP)

China’s new plan to encourage more births is underwhelming

4 min read . 18 Jul 2025

Trump's aggressive visa revocations for Chinese students threaten US universities' finances and talent. (Image: AFP)

Targeting Chinese students threatens the bottom line at American universities

3 min read . 30 May 2025

Huawei customers browse in a Shanghai store operated by the Chinese tech company. Photo: Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Trump’s trade war deepens threat to US brands in China

4 min read . 15 Apr 2025

Poster for the Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2. No Chinese movie has approached the success of Ne Zha 2. (Photo: AFP)

How a Chinese animated movie reaped $1.2 billion and beat Hollywood giants

6 min read . 12 Feb 2025

People celebrate the Lunar New Year in Beijing, China. Photo: greg baker/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

DeepSeek’s breakthrough sparks national pride in China

3 min read . 31 Jan 2025

China had seen birth numbers plummet since 2017, the year after it ended the one-child policy. (AFP)

China sees a fresh decline in population, despite a rise in births

5 min read . 17 Jan 2025

Many rural Chinese who move to take jobs in urban areas can’t bring their children with them. (Photo: Gilles Sabrié for WSJ)

The ‘invisible wall’ amplifying China’s population doom loop

6 min read . 24 Dec 2024

China is grappling with a demographic crisis, with dropping birthrates and a rapidly aging population. (REUTERS)

The missing girls: How China’s one-child policy tore families apart

8 min read . 18 Sept 2024

The average life expectancy in China has almost doubled over the past seven decades. Photo: AP

China faces the inevitable, raising its low retirement age

3 min read . 10 Sept 2024

The release of ‘Hidden Letters’ in China shows a growing market for cultural content about women’s issues there. (Photo: Feng Tiebing)

Films about women are having a moment in China

6 min read . 10 Sept 2024

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators kept guard at their encampment on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.

How China sees US campus protests

3 min read . 03 May 2024

(FILES) This file photo taken on May 12, 2023 shows a nurse taking care of a newborn baby at a hospital in Taizhou, in China's eastern Jiangsu province. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (AFP)

How China Miscalculated Its Way to a Baby Bust

9 min read . 12 Feb 2024

Over the past year, China’s population dropped by 2.08 million, more than twice as many as in 2022.

China’s Population Decline Accelerated Last Year

1 min read . 17 Jan 2024

People attending a New Year celebration in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu province. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (AFP)

China Is Pressing Women to Have More Babies. Many Are Saying No.

9 min read . 02 Jan 2024

Fight to Save a New York Birth Center Tests State Law

Fight to Save a New York Birth Center Tests State Law

5 min read . 27 Sept 2023

People wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) cycle on a street during a Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown in the Jing'an district of Shanghai on May 29, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

China’s lockdowns prompt a rethinking of life plans among the young

6 min read . 29 May 2022

The small Chinese city of Ruili, in the far south next to Myanmar, has seen a major construction project in the past two years. It is a border fence equipped with barbed wire, surveillance cameras and sensors (Photo: AFP)

China fortifies its borders with a ‘Southern Great Wall,’ citing covid-19

7 min read . 04 Feb 2022

At the end of 2021, China’s population was 1.413 billion, up only 0.034% from the year-earlier 1.412 billion at end 2020 (Photo: AP)

China’s population stalls with births in 2021 the lowest in modern history

3 min read . 17 Jan 2022

Researchers say the higher age at which Chinese women are trying to have children might partly account for its comparatively high infertility rate (Photo: Reuters)

China haunted by its 1-child policy as it tries to encourage couples to conceive

8 min read . 03 Jan 2022

In China, women fill gap in heavy-labor industries

7 min read . 10 Aug 2021