Tianjin, the largest port city in north China, will open its first ever training course for mid-level kindergarten teachers at the end of this month in a bid to cultivate masculine qualities of boys.

The training class will recruit 30 male students who should be college graduates, with a wide range of knowledge, acquaint themselves with psychology, medical care, kinematics and nutriology, have clear standard Chinese pronunciation and non-smoking.

They should complete the 100-lesson curriculum and pass the written and field work tests before obtaining the mid-level professional kindergarten teacher certificates.

Apart from the required courses, they should know the physiological and psychological characteristics of children under three, infant nutrition and education and relevant legal rules.

In present-day China, male teachers encounter great difficulties from society because taking care of children is traditionally done by females.

However, male teachers have gained increasing popularity among children and parents in recent years because some kids are timid as a result of lacking sibling competition in the one-child families and influence of female teachers.

Many kindergartens welcome participation of well-educated male teachers as children need masculine guidance in pre-school education.