In Beijing, across the city, 278,000 children are currently enrolled in 1,245 kindergartens, and Beijing’s deputy mayor Hong Feng was quoted by Xinhua to claim that by 2013, local officials plan to open 75,000 more kindergarten places. However, parents are not convinced that this will ease the increased competition for kindergarten places. Professor Duan Chenrong of Renmin University China claims that Beijing will be home to about 460,000 kindergarten-aged children in 2013. Li Jianli, principal of a kindergarten in Beijing’s Xicheng district is worried about the quality of education provided in these new kindergartens, “It’s easy to build kindergartens, but professionals cannot be trained in a short time.”
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