SCMP Hong Kong11/11 16:30 (HKT)
As an ageing mainland China takes to AI, Hong Kong must catch up

A decade ago, when Beijing ended its one-child policy, demographers and economists issued a grim consensus: a rapidly shrinking workforce would cripple China’s manufacturing and export machine. Indeed, the demographic dividend that powered China’s rise between 1980 and 2010 has run its course; from