SHANGHAI Real Air Jordan Retro For Sale , May 1 (Xinhua) -- Aged just two and a half, Wu Rui follows her mother to work every morning, joining her peers in day care while her mother works in an office a few paces away.
Zhang Yi and her daughter have followed a similar schedule almost every week-day for a year, using the same day care center.
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"The center also helps tend older children, including primary school students who finish class early and need to wait for their parents to take them home," said Qian Kun, head of the day care center.
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Since March 11, several other day care centers were established in Shanghai's office buildings, industrial parks and large companies, a move requested by the city's federation of trade unions, to help working mothers stay in their jobs. The number will expand to 50 before the end of the year.
A 2016 survey by the federation and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences found that 80 percent of women of child-bearing age were unwilling to have a second child, mainly because no one in their families was available to baby-sit.
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Wang, 37, remembers going to work with her mother as a toddler. "The nursery was run by my mom's factory in downtown Beijing and was close to her workshop," she said. "Mom said I began attending nursery when I was three months old, but she never felt miserable: we were so close to each other all the time."
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Regulators from a just announced special economic zone in North China's Hebei Province on Sunday suspended real estate transactions and new permanent residential permit, or hukou, registrations to curb speculative practices.
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The Xiongan New Area is of "national significance" like the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, the first economic zone set up in 1980 after China launched economic reforms, and the Shanghai Pudong New Area, said the statement, describing the decision as "a strategy crucial for the next millennium."
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In the wake of the announcement, "all property-related transactions at the three counties were suspended on Saturday due to concerns that speculative activities would drive up local property prices," a Beijing-based real estate agent surnamed Deng told the Global Times on Sunday.
Although an increasing number of homebuyers have shown interest, "virtually no residential properties at the new area were on sale," Deng added.
The National Business Daily (NBD) also reported on Sunday that Xiongxian authorities held an urgent meeting on Sunday morning, requiring real estate agents and developers to stop selling homes. The report quoted officials as saying that "the local government has worked overnight to close all outlets that sell homes in Xiongxian and also sent staff members to supervise developers."
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The average price of second-hand homes in Xiongxian has skyrocketed to over 8,000 yuan (1.165.25) per square meter from the usual price of around 3,000 to 4,000 yuan, the NBD report noted.