China’s Population Decline Impacts its Education Sector

China’s Population Decline Impacts its Education Sector
Students arrive for a ceremony on the first day of the new school year at an elementary school in Beijing, China on Sept. 1, 2021. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
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China’s population has entered an era of negative growth, and the impact of plummeting birth rates has spread to the education sector.

The Asian giant may have seen a short baby boom in 2015 as many families decided to have a second child after the communist regime’s draconian one-child policy was lifted. However, instead of continuing to rise, birth rates declined after 2017.

Jessica Mao
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Jessica Mao is a writer for The Epoch Times with a focus on China-related topics. She began writing for the Chinese-language edition in 2009.
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