A study by China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) warned that the country must implement policies to handle a smaller workforce and an older population, the BBC reported on Sunday. Reuters China’s population will peak in 2029 at 1.44 billion before beginning a period of “unstoppable” decline, a government report said. The study by China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) warned that the country must implement policies to handle a smaller workforce and an older population, the BBC reported on Sunday. Both changes combined — long-term population decline and a continuously aging population — could cause “very unfavorable social and economic consequences”, the report said. In 2015 the world’s most populous country ended its one-child policy in a bid to tackle the problems. According to latest UN estimates, China has a population of 1.41 billion. The study, appearing in CASS’s Green Book of Population and Labour, said that […]