China News Agency, Paris, February 7th (Reporter Li Yang) On the 7th local time, France encountered the third strike and demonstration against the reform of the retirement system.

The scale of strikes and demonstrations that day was still huge, but compared with the previous two, the number of participants has decreased.

　　Public transport services were still hardest hit by the strike that day.

French rail passenger services continue to be affected by widespread strikes, with most lines cancelled.

Most of the metro lines in Paris are of limited service, with long intervals between trains.

The reporter saw at the subway station at the Arc de Triomphe, because many subway lines no longer carry passengers here, only a few passengers enter the station to take the train here.

　　According to statistics released by French officials, 11.4% of public service personnel went on strike that day, compared with the second strike on January 31 (19.4%) and the first strike on January 19 (28%). The number has decreased.

In addition, the strike rate of teachers and employees in the energy field also decreased.

　　Different from the previous two strikes, the railway passenger service will continue to be affected by the strike on the 8th.

That means another day of severe undercapacity for passenger rail.

For the first two strikes, passenger rail services basically returned to normal after a one-day strike.

The French National Railways expects passenger services to return to the state before the strike on the 9th.

　　The French Ministry of the Interior stated on the evening of the 7th that 750,000 people participated in demonstrations across France that day, including 57,000 people in Paris.

According to the French Federation of Trade Unions, nearly 2 million people participated in the demonstrations across France, including 400,000 people in Paris.

According to data from the French Ministry of the Interior, the number of demonstrations across France on January 31 was 1.27 million, including 87,000 participants in Paris.

　　The day's demonstrations were still going on in the center of Paris, during which there were small-scale conflicts and vandalism, and some shops and external facilities of the station were destroyed.

Police arrest 17 people in Paris.

　　Martinez, secretary-general of the French Federation of Trade Unions, declared that if the government does not withdraw the retirement system reform plan, the trade unions will continue to organize more strikes.

　　French officials announced a retirement system reform plan last month, planning to delay the statutory retirement age from the current 62 to 64.

A draft law on the relevant reforms is currently under consideration by the National Assembly.

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