Shenzhen to build 800 nursing rooms by 2020

The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen will install more than 800 nursing rooms across the city by 2020 to offer more convenience to mothers who need to breast-feed or change their child's diaper.

A mother takes her baby into a nursing room at the Shenzhen North Railway Station. [Photo/sznews.com]

According to the government bulletin, the number of nursing rooms to be built every year will be no less than 200.

By 2020, over 800 nursing rooms will be put into use in Shenzhen. [Photo/sznews.com]

Early in 2016, the city decided to build itself into a child-friendly city and over the past several years, it has been striving to increase the number of nursing rooms in order to provid safer, more comfortable and more sanitary spaces for mothers-to-be and mothers with children. The nursing room project is currently listed as a key project in the city's Child-Friendly City Action Plan (2018-2020).

The nursing rooms in Shenzhen provide clean running water, a diaper-changing board and a chair. [Photo/sznews.com]