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Chinese children line up under the supervision of a teacher at a kindergarten playground in Beijing, on Dec. 7, 1997. Goh Chai Hin/AFP via Getty Images
China’s kindergartens and elementary schools have seen student numbers decreasing dramatically following the year-by-year shrinking of China’s birth rate. The trend is expected to intensify and extend to higher grades in middle schools and colleges in the upcoming years.