Childcare Services

Shanghai has launched pilot childcare services in a number of workplaces to encourage more families to have a second child, local authorities said on March 7.

About 80 percent of women of child-bearing age in Shanghai do not want a second child, according to a 2016 survey jointly conducted by the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions (SFTU) and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

Most of these respondents said there was “no one to help them take care of the child.”

The SFTU has established 12 childcare pilot centers in enterprises, industry parks, public institutions and government departments that meet requirements and have strong demand for such services.

By the end of 2017, the city is expected to have 50 such childcare centers, according to the SFTU.

Besides, the SFTU has set up 1,765 “mom’s huts” since 2013 to provide services for pregnant, postnatal and breastfeeding women.

Shanghai has 3.3 million working women. breaking the previous record of 6,000 meters held by a U.S. vessel, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on March 7.

Codenamed Haiyi , which means sea wings in Chinese, the underwater glider was developed by the Shenyang Institute of Automation under CAS, and will be used to monitor the deep-sea environment.

The Haiyi , carried by deep-sea submersible mother ship Tansuo-1 , dived down 12 times and traveled over 130 km during its four-day mission, collecting high-resolution data for scientific research.