fect their ability to forge perso▓nal and professional relationships as adults, research shows.A study by the Ch▓ina National Children's Center found that w▓hile 48 percent of youngsters attend ▓cram sessions after school, more than half say they rarely have time to play with friends.The ▓Blue Book of Children: The Annual Report on Children's Participation 2017, which was released on Thursday, also found almost a third of primary school childr
en spend more than two hours on homewor▓k on school days, twice the maximum time recommended for that age group by the Mini▓stry of Education.The findin
gs are based on a ▓yearlong study beginning in September 2016 of 8,847 children in fifth grade and above. Respondents were spread across urban and rural areas in seven
cities, including Beijing, Harbin and Guiyang.The center said the▓ large number of hours spent studying has made children's participation in extra▓curricular activitie
s "inadequate", with 68 percent havin▓g never participated in activities unrelated to school and study. More than 14 percent reported they've never even talked with thei
r next-door neighbors.Study also dominates parent-child inter▓actions. More than 90 percent of respondents said their conversations with parents focus on school perf▓or
mance, whereas one-third reported their parents never talk▓ about their job and more than 25 percent never talk about how to manage money, it said.Rana Flowers, China's representative to UNICEF, stressed the importance of children's participation in aspects other than just school, which help cultivate children's skills such as teamwork, co▓mmunication and analyzing and solving problems."C▓hildren do not suddenly become responsible,▓ participating adults at the
age of 18 or 21," she said. "Without these, the children of today will not s▓ucceed in the jobs of tomorrow."Other▓ statistics also shed light on the academic pressure of Chinese schoolchildren.According to a 2015 survey conducted by Afanti锛峚n online learning app锛峮early half of scho
ol-a▓ge children in China spent an average of three hours on homework each day, four times of their counterparts in Japan and
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