Les jeunes garçons chinois sont illustrés à la gymnastique et un centre de formation de plongée à Nanchang city, province de Jiangxi, Chine orientale, 26 mai 2017. Les enfants comme
Young Chinese boys are pictured at a gymnastics and diving training center in Nanchang city, east China's Jiangxi province, 26 May 2017. Children as young as four receive tough training at a gymnastics and diving training center in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China. They do not get any holiday because a "one or two month break would make their skills rusty". In China, a country where in the past, young children have been placed in schools designed to train future Olympic champions. Young children are being put through gruelling training routines at ages as young as six. However, things are changing in the country as demographics shift as the country grows more prosperous and a larger focus is placed on different forms of education. Fewer parents are willing to let their children endure gruelling training routines, leading to a fall in student numbers. Some schools have closed and others are adjusting the way they work. The number of sport schools is down from 3, 687 in 1990, government numbers show.
