The party's elite met to chart a course for China's development and reform over the next five years. NPR's John Ruwitch is in Beijing. John, thanks so much for being with us.

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China has no choice but to keep raising the retirement age for workers, according to Yi Fuxian. The nation has a demographic crisis, which is straining the pension system, the researcher said.

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China's population grew at its slowest in the last decade since the 1950s as births declined, sowing doubt over Beijing's ability to power its economy as it succumbs to the same ...

As a result, China’s labour force as a share of the total population was roughly stable, hovering at around 50%, from 1982 to 2015. The demographic dividend, Dr Meng argues, may never have existed.