Around 60 percent of working mothers in China are not interested in having a second child, according to a new nationwide survey on China's career women.

The survey was conducted by Chinese job recruitment site Zhaopin.com. Around 14,290, working women participated in this survey

The survey found that among 29.39 percent non-pregnant women, 20.48 percent of them did not want to give birth to a child.

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Participating women cited various reasons for their unwillingness to become mothers, the most popular being the rising cost of living across Chinese cities. The inability to give needed time and energy to rearing a child was another reason cited by several women.

The survey stated that nearly 70 percent of working women did not want to leave their existing jobs to become mothers, while 18.53 percent said they would consider quitting.

Wang Yixin, a senior consultant at Zhaopin, said most working women do not want to leave their job as they feel it is impossible to live only on their husband's salary.

"Other reasons involve their own ambitions. They fear that if they stop working, they will become isolated from a dynamic society and lose their career prospects," Wang said.

Zhaopin.com published the survey on Sunday, which was celebrated as 'Mothers day' across the world. The survey also comes just a few months after the Chinese government backtracked on its decades-long one-child policy and in favor of the new two-child policy.

To control its growing population, the Chinese government strictly implemented its one-child policy for nearly 40 years.

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