Female job applicants in China, which is trying to raise its birthrate, have long been discriminated against by employers who ask about their marriage and childbearing plans.

As China’s government worries about the falling birthrate, some private employers have ordered workers to do their part, or else. By Vivian Wang Reporting from Beijing The ideal worker at the ...

A Chinese company is still facing backlash after asking single employees between 28 and 58 to get married and have a family or lose jobs According to the company that has since retracted the memo ...

A Chinese company, Shuntian Chemical Group, faced backlash and official scrutiny after issuing a controversial notice that required unmarried employees to marry by September 2025 or risk termination.

On Feb. 1, 2025, China’s Supreme People’s Court officially adopted a series of new interpretations of the country’s marriage and family laws. Buried in Article 8 of the document was a line that could ...

Ghost marriages, an ancient Chinese tradition, unite the dead in matrimony to ensure harmony and family honour. Rooted in ...

A company in China that introduced a policy threatening single employees with termination if they were not married by the end of September says it has withdrawn its notice. The Shuntian Chemical ...

Shandong Shuntian, the company that asked their employees to start a family Shuntian Chemicals A Chinese company has sparked outrage after issuing a memo demanding that all unmarried or divorced ...