China Running Out Of Women

State Media Reports There Will Be 30 Million More Men Than Women By 2020

(AP)  China will have 30 million more men of marriageable age than women in less than 15 years as a gender imbalance resulting from the country's tough one-child policy becomes more pronounced, state media reported Friday.

The tens of millions of men who will not be able to find a wife could also lead to social instability problems, the China Daily said in a front-page report.

China imposed strict population controls in the 1970s to limit growth of its huge population, but one side effect has been a jump in gender selection of babies. Traditional preferences for a son mean some women abort their baby if an early term sonogram shows it is a girl.

"Discrimination against the female sex remains the primary cause of China's growing gender imbalance," Liu Bohong, vice director of the women studies institute under the All-China Women's Federation, was quoted as saying in a report from the State Population and Family Planning Commission.

Sex selective abortion is prohibited but the government says the practice remains widespread, especially in rural areas.

The report, carried in the newspaper, said China's sex ratio for newborn babies in 2005 was 118 boys to 100 girls, a huge jump from 110 to 100 in 2000.

In some regions such as the southern provinces of Guangdong and Hainan, the ratio has ballooned to 130 boys to 100 girls, the newspaper said. The average for industrialized countries is between 104 and 107 boys for every 100 girls.

The report predicted that by 2020 the imbalance would mean men of marriageable age — especially those with low income or little education — would find it difficult to find wives, resulting in possible social problems.

The problem is not just a rural issue, with the newborn gender imbalance also widening in cities. In the first 11 months of 2006, there were 109 boys born in Beijing for every 100 girls.

China Daily said one way to solve the problem would be to create a proper social security system so rural couples would not feel they needed a son to depend on when they get old.

Up to 800 million of China's 1.3 billion people live in the countryside.

[dallison7]

Maybe we can send Monica... no wait!! She needs to stay here and give W a BJ so we can impeach him.

[cbgb31]

There will be 30 million extra men at just the right age for military service. I wonder if they will have a war?Posted by random_radar at 06:15 PM : Jan 12, 2007

Yea, and I wonder where it'll be fought. Not here I hope.

[olebd]

In the words of Henny Youngman - "Take my wife, please!"

[random_radar]

There will be 30 million extra men at just the right age for military service. I wonder if they will have a war?

No matter what, we are going to see interesting things occur. 30 million is a large constituency of frustrated horomone laden males.

[heyitsme_76]

Where is Madonna when you need her the most ??

[rharrin1]

It would seem in 18 years the population should drop rather fast.

[agnim]

"Let those "excess" men suffer from the sexism there. If only there would be so much "social instability" from the usual situation of too many unattached women, and the way this allows men to mistreat women.

Posted by maiingan at 01:37 PM : Jan 12, 2007"
And just who is going to practice your "sexism" on the men? What delusion. LOL

"Too many unattached women" should be mated off in legal polygamous populations as is done in wiser cultures.

Loose women are ALWAYS going to have lower social standing. And this is especially true if thOSE excess women engage in undignified behaviors; such as making themselves into *** objects.

[agnim]

China doesn't have a problem.
They just need to practice polyandry to mate off the excess men who need a mate.

The west could tamp down prostitutions and affairs and cheating, etc if we were wise enough and practical enough to practice legalize polygamy.
Or we could join those eastern cultures that just get rid of excess female fetuses.

[sy2502]

With not enough women to procreate, the Chinese population will go down, and they won't need the 1 child policy anymore. It seems to me they have solved their problem, one way or another.

[maiingan]

Let those "excess" men suffer from the sexism there. If only there would be so much "social instability" from the usual situation of too many unattached women, and the way this allows men to mistreat women. You think prostitution is an acceptable solution to that? Studies have shown that the vast majority of prostitutes were abused in their youth. China is one of many countries that is badly overpopulated, but I think it would be starry-eyed to hope that this situation would help reduce it.