China's birth rate has continued to fall.Chen Qibao/Xinhua News Agency/Getty ImagesChina's falling birth rate is leading to the closure of many hospital obstetrics departments.The fertility decline has forced hospitals to offer other services.Despite government incentives to boost birth rates, many young Chinese people are not keen to have kids.People in China are having fewer babies — so much so that many hospitals in the country have stopped delivery services altogether, according to state-owned The Paper in a Monday report.The trend appeared to have started last year when some hospitals in China shut their obstetrics department, according to the media outlet, which also reported on the phenomenon in September.It's unclear exactly how many hospitals have shut their obstetrics department or halted newborn delivery services in the last year.And hospitals are continuing to shut down obstetrics departments this year.Hospitals that have shut obstetrics departments this year include the Fifth People's Hospital of Ganzhou City in the southeastern province of Jiangxi and the Jiangshan Hospital of Traditional Medicine in the eastern province of Zhejiang.The Jiangxi hospital said in its notice its Wechat social media account that the closure was due to the institute's "development plan," while the Zhejiang facility said the decision was made based on business considerations.

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