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🗓️ 06/06/2026 18:45

Chinese parents have long used colorful slang to describe their children, calling them “gold-eating beasts” or “money-destroyers.” A new study suggests that these anxieties are well-founded - but it also reveals an unexpected financial turnaround: In mainland China, having children actually gets cheaper from the second. Raising a child by the age of 18 in mainland China costs an average of 580,000 yuan ($85,625), according to a report released on May 29, 2026 by the YuWa Population Research Institute. The research group, co-founded by James Liang, president of Trip.com Group, highlighted the huge financial pressures driving the country's demographic crisis. But the study also found that the additional cost of having more children decreases significantly, revealing economies of scale in parenting. “When discussing the cost of raising children, a single value often leads to misunderstandings,” said Huang Wenzheng, executive director of the YuWa Population Research Institute. Huang explai

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