In recent years, the continuous decline in the number of births has had a profound impact on the education sector, especially on kindergartens. Next year, more kindergartens may face closures.
First, let's look at the reasons for the closure of kindergartens. In recent years, the country's fertility rate has continued to decline, resulting in a sharp decline in the number of children who can attend kindergarten. According to the data, the number of births in 2022 will be only 9.56 million, and the birth rate will be 677, this is the first time since 1950 that China's annual birth population has fallen below 10 million. The effect of the two-child policy is also weakening, with 15.23 million births in 2018, 14.65 million in 2019, and 12 million in 2020. The decrease in the number of births has had a significant impact on kindergartens and has begun this year.
On the other hand, with the improvement of urbanization, the population has concentrated from rural areas and small towns to large and medium-sized cities, which also makes the distribution of educational resources need to be adjusted accordingly. The adjustment, merger and optimization of rural educational institutions have become a general trend.
In order to cope with this challenge, all parts of China have proposed to actively respond to the new changes in the school-age population, and scientifically plan the adjustment of school layout based on local conditions. For example, the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Education has adjusted and optimized the layout and structure of basic education according to local conditions, and established a dynamic adjustment mechanism for the supply of urban and rural primary and secondary schools and kindergartens to meet the needs of new urbanization development and changes in the school-age population. Hunan Province proposed to organize the establishment and withdrawal of kindergartens in an orderly manner, and encouraged qualified counties (cities) to promote the gradual gathering of county-level high schools in the county seat according to the actual situation.
However, the closure of kindergartens is not just a decrease in the number, it reflects the change in China's demographic structure and the distribution of educational resources. With the change of population structure, the investment and distribution of educational resources should also be optimized and adjusted accordingly. In the future, there will be obvious spatial structural differences in the impact of the decline in the number of births on primary school enrollment, and the impact on primary schools in townships and towns will be the most obvious.
Overall, the closure of kindergartens is only the tip of the iceberg of demographic changes and adjustments to educational resources. In the future, China's education field will face more challenges and changes. In the context of demographic changes, how to optimize the allocation of educational resources and ensure that every child can receive high-quality education will be a difficult problem in front of us.
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