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Video | Elderly Chinese students fill empty kindergartens in Shanxi province as birth rate falls

  • The country has struggled with an ageing population and a plummeting birth rate, with nearly 15,000 kindergartens closing in 2023

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Elderly Chinese students fill empty kindergartens as birth rate falls

Elderly Chinese students fill empty kindergartens as birth rate falls

Elderly and middle-aged people are filling the empty classrooms of a kindergarten in China’s northern Shanxi province.

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Preschools are closing as the country’s falling birth rate has led to fewer pupils.

To stay in business, some establishments have been welcoming older people instead.

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