Trade union grants 7.5m yuan to 150 workplace child care providers

The All-China Federation of Trade Unions recently granted 7.5 million yuan ($1.12 million) to 150 units nationwide that offer affordable child care for their employees.
The federation, together with the National Health Commission, has published a list of 150 institutions providing full-day or half-day child care services to employees with children under three years old.
The 150 units include Peking University, Nantong Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital in Jiangsu province, Hangzhou Normal University in Zhejiang province, and Hitech Intelligent, a company providing engineering robots and overall solutions for construction operations in Anhui province.
The federation and the commission have jointly listed 450 institutions nationwide that have been providing child care services for their employees since 2022. The federation has allocated a total subsidy of 30 million yuan to encourage employers across the nation to offer such services to their workers, according to a news release by the federation on Monday.