Multiple schools have significantly reduced enrollment in early childhood education programs, resulting in a decrease of over 240,000 kindergarten teachers from last year.

In recent years, the change in birth population has had a significant impact on the education sector, with kindergartens being the first to be affected. According to data from the "China Statistical Yearbook 2025," in 2024, China saw a decrease of 241,800 full-time kindergarten teachers. The data shows that the number of full-time teachers in early childhood education has decreased for the past two years, from 3.2442 million in 2022 to 2.8319 million in 2024, a reduction of 412,300 people over two years. In terms of the number of kindergartens, China has seen a consecutive decrease for three years since 2022. In 2022, there were a total of 289,200 kindergartens in the country, a decrease of 5,610 from the previous year, a decrease of 1.9%. According to a analysis by First Financial Journalists, this is also the first negative growth in the number of kindergartens nationwide since 2008. In 2023, there were 274,400 kindergartens in the country, a decrease of 14,808 from the previous year, a decrease of 5.12%. Last year, the number of kindergartens decreased by 21,100 from the previous year. Over the past three years, the number of kindergartens has decreased by 41,569. Overall, the change in birth population in recent years has directly led to the change in the number of kindergartens. However, the trend of reducing full-time kindergarten teachers and the number of kindergartens is expected to slow down in the future. One of the reasons for this is that from 2021 to 2023, although the birth population continued to decline, the overall decline rate slowed down. In 2024, the birth population increased by 520,000 compared to 2023. The trend of birth population change will also affect the future changes in the number of kindergarten teachers and kindergartens.