In China, there are no women to marry

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1. The headline is misleading, and the video describes how ‘left-over women’ in the urban centers are being motivated by an NGO to move to rural areas where there are ‘left-over men’, though less educated and less financially suitable. The disproportion of women in China is a well documented fact that will shortly become a great burden to the Chinese as they have to deal with the stagnation in their economy going forward. Indeed, the consideration of China’s economy might provide a better context of the greater significance of this story . The Chinese economy was based around a policy of taking on massive debt to creating enormous work projects which created a temporary increase in jobs and improvement in their economy. Unfortunately the projects that were developed were routinely vast cities or structures, often in remote sections of the country, that no one used following their construction. Hence, these projects were quite expensive and only created a temporary economic benefit, rather than building something like the Hoover Dam or the city of Las Vegas which would each provide a significant financial windfall in the years following their construction. It should be noted that some of these ghost cities are slowly being utilized, but, economically, this very limited growth can not substantially offset the debt generated by these massive projects and the resulting drain upon the Chinese economy.

   Here are some photos of these empty cities:
   https://allthatsinteresting.com/chinese-ghost-cities

   And the resulting debt in China is crippling any possibility of further growth in the economy, and, also, in the past year, there have been several banks that have failed. So what does all of this have to do with the subject of the ‘left-over’ people? The reduced numbers of women grants them the ability to choose their husbands from the more wealthy end of China’s economic spectrum – generally urban dwellers. This leaves the rural countryside with poorer, less educated men who have more limited means of enticing a woman to consent to marry them over their wealthier urban competition. Hence, their is a concern of a potential unrest by these unmarried men who have limited finances, in a stagnating economy while numerous banks are failing, and the international markets are moving, to some degree, from China to Vietnam and Cambodia. Hence, the NGO described in the video has developed a plan to share the wealth of these well educated and wealthy urban women with the poorer and less educated rural men, even to the point of paying the rural men to become more marketable, so to speak. The intent here is to dilute this relative converging of forces which would be disposed towards possibly fomenting an insurgency among these disaffected rural men in these remote centers of the country. Hence, the disproportion of women to men is a very great concern for China’s future economy and will likely play a negative influence in her ability to weather both economic and social struggles in the coming years.

2. Two things, Bear Klein.
   1. I have rendered the title to be false, because it is stated as an absolute that is not true.
   2. If within my personal immediate circle there are single women of marriage age, I cannot possibly be the sole example of it in, as you have said, in a country of over a billion people.
   I agree that a census would indicate that there are more marriagable men than there are marriagle women, but the title is histerical, sort of like saying there is no water in the ocean.

3. So Buzz your one example in a country of over a billion people is indicating that China has at least 50 plus percent women?

4. Oh come on. My Chinese wife has two sweet and beautiful nieces of marrying age with no husbands. We live in Chongqing.