Figures released this month show that at the end of 2014, China had 701 million men and 667 million women — a shortfall of nearly 34 million.
With 120 men for every 100 women, China’s Bridget Joneses are now male, and increasingly desperate for a date.
The country’s media has begun advertising options for foreign wives, recommending women from Japan, South Korea and even Ukraine. Men are turning to online dating, advertising themselves on billboards and even hiring professional matchmakers, psychologists and stylists to make themselves more appealing.
The race is on for boys to find their future wives. Source: News Corp Australia
Beijing News provided a helpful chart showing top destinations around the globe for China’s male singletons to find a partner. The newspaper also blamed the “export” of women overseas for the shortage of single women.
In truth, the biggest problem has been the country’s one-child policy, which led parents to abandon girls or use sex-selective abortion to guarantee a male child. Chinese hospitals have been banned from revealing a baby’s sex to the parents since 1995, but families can secretly obtain black-market sonogram tests, where blood samples are carried over the border for testing.
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