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Nursery Become a Main Competitor
Hong Kong is having "baby boom" again! The total number of births in Hong Kong last year is about 88,500 babies; newborn rate is significant increase in the past 27 years with a new high record. Among the newborn babies, born from mainland china women accounted for 47,800 births, is a high growth rate in a decade. "Hong Kong infants" and "Mainland infants" growth in the number of both cases, the child will face a lot of competition, such as kindergartens and nursery school placement competition has emerged, the number of people enrolled in kindergarten schools has increase tension. This generation of "baby boom" children, the future of their elementary school life to college admission year will face a strong competition.
Some parents points out that their children when they are 4-5 months old have already help them register for the kindergarten, but the school announce it was already too late, the reason behind this is because many parents want their children's chances of winning their favorite nursery, have paved the way very early, first admitted to the same school playgroup, even some pregnant women have pre-registration in line also, thus resulting in a big tension in the nursery school placement.
Kindergarten Association said that the government does not encourage children under the age of 3 to go to school, since the number of nursery school in Hong Kong is not enough, there are now 600 kindergarten, nursery is no more than 300, less than half full, but in recent years more and more parents believe that their children should have a earlier development for a variety of potential future development of their child, so nursery schools have become today's competitor.
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