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The drop occurred despite light construction at nativity scenes last year, the first building since 2016. State efforts to trick women into young women have met with resistance.
By Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu Wang
Reporting from Hong Kong
To get its citizens to have more children and stop its population from shrinking, China has tried it all, even declaring having babies an act of patriotism. And yet, for the third year in a row, its population got smaller.
Not even a wonder accumulated in the number of young children born, the first in seven years, may not simply be opposite to the course of an aging and decline population.
China is staring down a longer term baby bust that is rippling through the economy. Hospitals are shutting their obstetrics units, and companies that sold baby formula are idling factories. Thousands of kindergartens have closed and more than 170,000 preschool teachers lost their jobs in 2023.
The country’s birth rate, as former kindergarten in the southern city of Chongqing, “falls out of the cliff. ” Registration in the Gardens of Chinese infants fell more than five million in 2023, according to the maximum recently has data.
On Friday, the National Statistics Office reported that 9. 54 million young children were born last year, below 9. 02 million in 2023. It consists of the number of other people who died in 2024 – 10. 93 million: the population of China has decreased by A third consecutive year.
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