Despite highest birth rate, Shenzhen shows challenge of reversing China's demographic decline

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, it quashed reports the census would reveal China's first population decline in 50 years, saying the population continued to grow.Shenzhen government figures in 2019 showed it had the highest birth rate among China's major, cities with 21.7 babies for every 10,000 of its 13.44 million population. That is in part because a large proportion of its population are of childbearing age.

The local government nevertheless has plans to add an extra 740,000 school places by 2025, up from 2.3 million in 2019. "Without effective reform on education, it would be difficult to alleviate parents' anxiety and improve the replacement rate, even in a city like Shenzhen with great economic prosperity and other public services," he said.

 

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