The enrollment rate of infants and young children under 3 years old in my country is low but the demand is large
——The enrollment rate of infants and young children under 3 years old in my country is only 5.5%
In 2021 At a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on July 21, 2019, Yang Wenzhuang, director of the Department of Population and Family of the National Health Commission, announced that the current daycare rate for my country’s 42 million infants and young children under the age of 3 is only 5.5%.
From 2017 to 2020, my country's nursery enrollment rate for infants and young children under 3 years old increased from 4.10% to 5.50%. Within 3 years, the rate increased slightly.
The nursery enrollment rate for infants under 3 years old in my country is relatively low.
According to data released by the OECD, the OECD’s average nursery enrollment rate for infants under three years old is 36.1%, but in 2020, our country’s rate is only 5.5%, which is far from the international level and even lagging behind. .
——There is a discrepancy between market demand and the actual daycare rate
With the daycare rate for infants under three years old in my country at a relatively low level, my country’s infant daycare market for under three years old The actual demand situation is not like this.
According to the latest survey by the Qianzhan Industry Research Institute in 2021, only 5% of the families surveyed do not need childcare services for infants and young children under 3 years old at all, that is, the remaining 95% of families do not need child care services. There is demand for childcare services for infants and young children under 3 years old, and about 84% of families have strong demand.
There is a contradiction between supply and demand in the childcare market
The reasons for the above situation are actually more complicated. Qianzhan believes that it is due to the contradiction between the enrollment rate and the actual demand, mainly for the supply of "supporting facilities" “Can’t keep up with market demand.
The three main reasons for the high demand for child care for infants under 3 years old are: elders are too old to take care of children, there are hidden dangers in nannies, and the changes in modern women’s concepts.
The reason for the low enrollment rate is the laws and regulations of the childcare market
The government has improved the laws, regulations and standards for childcare services for infants under 3 years old
Aimed at Regarding child care services for infants and young children under 3 years old, our country has issued two important policies, namely the "Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Promoting the Healthy Development of Elderly Care Services" and the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of Infant and Child Care Services for Under 3 Years Old" , both policies make relevant provisions on the laws, regulations and standards of the industry, especially in terms of childcare service talents.
It is worth noting that at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office, Yang Wenzhuang, director of the Department of Population and Family of the National Health Commission, issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of Care Services for Infants and Young Children Under 3 Years Old". The content mentions that in order to meet the demand for professional childcare talents, it is necessary to promote academic education, establish and improve the training system of childcare-related majors at undergraduate and higher vocational colleges, strengthen on-the-job training, and start the implementation of childcare institution directors and childcare personnel. Special actions are taken to improve capabilities and gradually implement rotation training for all employees. In addition, the professional qualification certification standards for childcare teachers should be established and improved so that talents serving in the childcare industry will have better career planning, development prospects, room for improvement and remuneration.
It is urgent for policies to promote the childcare market supervision system and talent qualification standards. With the opening of the "three-child policy", related supporting facilities also need to be improved, as Zhai Zhenwu, president of the China Population Society, put forward in an interview There are two issues that need to be focused on improvement: increasing the child care rate for children aged 0 to 3 years old and reducing the direct cost of child care, such as implementing education exemptions and exemptions for personal income tax, and reducing child care costs through optimizing tax policies.
——The above data comes from the "Market Prospects Forecast and Investment Strategic Planning Analysis Report of China's Child Care Industry" by the Qianzhan Industry Research Institute