China Daily (Hong Kong)

Newborn numbers on rise in capital

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About 100,000 more babies were born in Beijing hospitals last year compared with 2015, local authoritie­s said on Wednesday. According to the Beijing Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning, there were about 280,000 newborns in Beijing in 2016, an increase of 62 percent from 2015. About 30 percent of the newborns were not the first child in their families. Rates of maternal mortality, infant mortality and mortality among children under the age of 5 also dropped last year.

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