TAIYUAN: Top citizens influence to old-time music at a previous preschool in northern China as educators turn their attention away from children in the wake of a baby boom and a rapidly aging population.
According to official statistics, hundreds of millions of Chinese people will eventually reach retirement due to the government’s severely low birth rate.
The education field is already being hit by the recession, with thousands of classrooms closing nationwide as enrollment declines.
Others are adapting to the times, such as a hospital in Shanxi province that has swapped out chirroed children for more older people.
“( The problem ) became particularly evident as the number of children continued to decrease”, principal Li Xiuling, 56, told AFP.
I considered how to make the most of my school after it was emptied out, she said.
Li’s school was founded in 2005 and previously served as many as 280 kids, but closed final time.
In December, it reopened as Ideas of Youth, a fun facility for people over the age of retirement.
The area in the provincial capital Taiyuan boasts around 100 adult learners of music, dancing, modelling and different content.
” It’s rather a democratic idea”, Li said. They realize some of the goals they had when they were young.