City maternity wards roar softly in Year of the Tiger
By Yang Wanli | China Daily | Updated: 2010-03-02 07:48
A couple hold their baby at a hospital in Beijing. Births in Beijing during Spring Festival fell due to superstition that babies born in the Year of the Tiger can be problematic. Zou Hong / china Daily |
The number of babies born in the Year of the Tiger dropped nearly 30 percent in the first month of the Chinese New Year, according to the Haidian Maternal and Child Health Hospital.
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