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This picture taken on July 2, 2024 shows Lei Fangyan gesturing as he teaches African drums at a kindergarten-turned-elderly centre in Taiyuan, in China's northern Shanxi province. Senior citizens sway to old-time tunes in the classroom of a former kindergarten in northern China, as educators turn their sights away from children in the face of a rapidly ageing population and a baby bust.
But others are changing with the times—such as a facility in Shanxi province, which has traded chortling children for a more mature cohort. The space in the provincial capital Taiyuan boasts around 100 adult learners of music, dance, modelling and other subjects. He Ying, 63, said joining the center had helped her overcome a post-retirement lack of confidence and meet new friends.
The center bears traces of its past, with bunkbeds and dinky writing desks lining the colourfully decorated walls of former classrooms. That age group already makes up more than 20 percent of the population, a proportion that is expected to rise to nearly a third by 2035, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, a research group.
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