overpopulation

The information that a baby abandonment center (known as “baby hatch”) in Guangzhou City had been closed off temporarily because the staff couldn’t care for the large number of children being dropped off there provoked considerable concern in the city’s welfare community. According to Xu Jiu, the director of one of the city’s welfare centers, 262 babies had been dropped off since the station opened on Jan. 28. Since 2011, approximately 25 such centers have been set up on the mainland across 10 provinces in China.