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The fall occurred despite a slight construction in births last year, the first building since 2016. State efforts to box women to have young people have found resistance.

By Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu Wang

Hong Kong reports

In order for its citizens to have younger and save their population that is reduced, China has tried everything, even pointing to having small young people an act of patriotism. And yet, for the third consecutive year, its population has smaller.

Not even a wonder accumulated in the number of young children born, a first in seven years, may not be facing the course of an aging and trimmed population.

China is in a long -term baby bust that sounds in the economy. Hospitals close their obstetrics and corporations that have sold young children to inactive. Thousands of children’s gardens have closed and more than 170,000 preschool teachers lost their work in 2023.

The country’s birth rate, as an old infant garden in the southern city of Chongqing said, “falls from a cliff. ” The record for Chinese kindergartens fell more than five million in 2023, according to the maximum recently will be received.

On Friday, the National Statistics Office reported that 9. 54 million young children were born last year, compared to 9. 02 million in 2023. constituted with the number of other people who died in 2024 – 10. 93 million, the population of China has decreased for a third for a third consecutive year.

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