The content originally appeared on: CNN There were only 8.5 births per 1,000 people in China last year, according to the latest yearbook released by the country's National Bureau of Statistics in late November. That's the lowest not only since yearbook records began in 1978 - but also since the founding of Communist China in 1949, according to official data. The birthrate, which has now fallen to single digits, is the latest troubling sign of China's worsening population crisis, as […]
