K-pop prospects brighten on China market hopes as Seoul and Beijing sign content exchange deal

K-pop prospects have brightened after Seoul and Beijing signed a content exchange deal, potentially paving the way for South ...
NBC New York

China warms up to K-pop as it pursues cultural diplomacy, strives to boost consumption amid trade worries

Locked in a trade war with the United States and struggling with weak domestic consumption, China looks set to make a U-turn on an unlikely sector: K-pop. It was announced on April 28 that K-pop group ...

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 ...
Agencia EFE

A decade after end of one-child policy, China faces population decline

Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, the world’s second-largest economy is now grappling with one of the lowest ...

As China’s population falls, 300,000-strong robot army keeps factories humming

China’s factories welcomed 295,000 newly installed industrial robots last year, easing fears the nation’s manufacturing ...