{"id":61863,"date":"2025-07-13T09:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T09:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/61863\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T09:17:09","slug":"chinas-kindergartens-grapple-with-economic-impact-of-plunge-in-prospective-pupils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/61863\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s kindergartens grapple with economic impact of plunge in prospective pupils"},"content":{"rendered":"

The government-affiliated kindergarten that Lily Wang works for in northeastern China used to be reserved for the children of officials, but China\u2019s plunging birth rate means it is having to cast its net wider nowadays.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe leadership has shifted its approach, enlarging the enrolment base and learning from the southern regions by adopting group-based management,\u201d said Wang, a senior teacher at the kindergarten in Harbin, Heilongjiang\u2019s provincial capital.<\/p>\n

It began recruiting pupils from the general populace in autumn last year. While it still gives priority to officials\u2019 children when reviewing applications, Wang said it felt as though even more pupils came from other backgrounds this year.<\/p>\n

With fewer children being born in China, the country\u2019s kindergartens are struggling<\/a> to find a path to survival. Solutions range from enrolling pupils from a wider range of backgrounds to offering other services that make use of teachers\u2019 skills.<\/p>\n

There were 253,300 kindergartens operating in China last year, down about 38,400 \u2013 or just over 13 per cent \u2013 from 2020. The number of children enrolled in them, which peaked at 48.18 million in 2020, was down 25.5 per cent at 35.84 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government-affiliated kindergarten that Lily Wang works for in northeastern China used to be reserved for the children…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[23494,44430,44431,64,245,74,79,44429,21222,44432,31111,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-61863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-babies","9":"tag-birth-rate","10":"tag-births","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-children","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-enrolment","16":"tag-kindergarten","17":"tag-national-health-commission","18":"tag-population","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114845177881190609","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}