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on September 3, 2025
For now, the fitness drive shows no sign of slowing -- some Chinese provinces are even tweaking entrance-test requirements for high schools and universities to increase the weighting given to sporting ach
<img alt="" />Local authorities will be told to "strengthen their supervision in order to reduce the burden on students in terms of homework and extra-curricular lessons", said news agency Xinhua, citing a law passed by the Chinese le
Child rearing costs are even higher in China's major cities, reaching more than 1 million yuan in Shanghai and 969,000 yuan in Beijing.
Birth rates in the two cities are even lower than the national average.
Beijing has already banned minors from playing online games for more than three hours a week in an effort to tackle addiction. It has also launched a crackdown on private tutoring companies, ordering them to go n
NFBUK street access campaign coordinator Sarah Gayton slammed Mayor of London Sadiq Khan for allowing the construction of cycle lanes through bus stops, which have become more common since Transport for London (TfL) increasing the number of cycleways in the capital since the pandemic.
They were under pressure to study and didn't have time for exercise. But now everyone values sports," Sui told AFP, after running her students through more stretches and balletic "People didn't like sports before.
Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus were amongst 12 clubs to announce a breakaway Super League in April 2021 but after a hostile reaction from across the game and from fans and governments alike the move promptly collapsed.
must allocate in a reasonable way for minors the time devoted to studies, rest, entertainment and physical activity in order not to increase their learning load and to avoid any internet a
SHANGHAI, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they try to tackle rapidly declining birth rates, new research showed.
China would need to spend at least 5% of its annual GDP to create incentives for couples to have more children, including education subsidies, preferential mortgage rates, tax breaks, equal paternity and maternity leave, as well as the construction of more childcare centres, it added.
China's exam-oriented education system requires students to take exams from an early age and culminates in the feared university entrance exam at age 18 known as the "gaokao", where a single score can determine a child's life t
NFBUK wrote to Sadiq Khan to warn him that the shared use bus boarders and floating bus stops (or bus bypasses) were dangerous for pedestrians, but Ms Gayton criticised the Mayor after he refused to commit to pausing new construction.
Experts warn China's ageing population will put huge pressure on its health and social security system, while a dwindling workforce could also severely limit growth for the world's second largest economy in the coming decades.
Footage showed a string of selfish bikers and e-scooter riders speeding past people trying to walk across a crossing in Farringdon Street, London — with some cyclists even swerving around pedestrians.
Although new policies allow families to have as many as three children, China's birth rate dropped to 7.52 births per 1,000 people in 2021, the lowest since the National Bureau of Statistics began recording the data in 1949.
Parents nowadays wouldn't insist on tutoring at home on weekends. They hope more to follow their child's natural instincts, and relieve their stress through sports," "It's not the same as before.
"The system has become quite unstable, it isn't self-sustainable anymore. Most clubs agree that it can't go on like that." I think the clubs should be able to decide their fate, as they also bear all the (financial) risk.
Beijing-based YuWa Population Research Institute said in a report published on Tuesday that the average cost of raising a child to the age of 18 in China in 2019 stood at 485,000 yuan ($76,629) for a first child, 6.9 times China's per capita GDP that year.
"European soccer is losing its leading role in world sports, and clubs are lagging behind in terms of their opportunities," Reichart, who was announced as A22 Sports Management CEO on Tuesday, told Reuters.
She sees her mission as not about creating elite -- or even middling -- athletes, but to break down Chinese perceptions that sport is only for top-level competitors and a waste of time for ever
MUNICH, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Bernd Reichart, CEO of the company backing a proposed Super League, said on Wednesday that European football is losing its leading role in world sport and that clubs are not maximising their potential under the current system.
Ms Gayton said that officials she has spoken to had accepted there was a problem with the shared bus stop, so she questioned why the Mayor was not stopping their construction which were 'designing disabled people out of public transport'.