China's Baby Boom Leads to Projected School Shortage

(Beijing) — China will have 14 million more preschool-aged children by 2021, the result of the country's scrapping the one-child policy in October 2015, and the country needs to build 100,000 new kindergartens to avoid a severe shortage of classroom seats, a study found.

The number of preschool-aged children will rise 27% to 66 million in 2021, an increase expected after the Communist Party said last year that all couples may now have two children, according to a recent research published in the Journal of Studies in Early Childhood Education.