Chinese villages offer cash rewards to matchmakers
as anxieties grow over rural ‘bachelor crisis’
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3250010/chinese-villages-offer-cash-rewards-matchmakers-anxieties-grow-over-rural-bachelor-crisis
The country has about 30 million unmarried men, and some policymakers worry the imbalance will affect stability and development in countryside
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3250010/chinese-villages-offer-cash-rewards-matchmakers-anxieties-grow-over-rural-bachelor-crisis
The country has about 30 million unmarried men, and some policymakers worry the imbalance will affect stability and development in countryside
China’s population decline accelerates as economy
reaches low growth target
https://www.ft.com/content/d9cf3643-566e-461f-a865-f9e215459cc7
Related: Who stands to gain from China’s demographic collapse?
China Told Women to Have Babies, but Its Population
Shrank Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/business/china-birth-rate-2023.html
Faced with falling births, China’s efforts to stabilize a shrinking population and maintain economic growth are failing.
China’s Economy Grew Last Year, but Strains Lurk Behind the Numbers
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/business/china-gdp-q4-2023.html
Gross domestic product expanded 5.2 percent, as China worked to export more to make up for weak demand, high debt and a steep property contraction at home.
https://www.ft.com/content/d9cf3643-566e-461f-a865-f9e215459cc7
Related: Who stands to gain from China’s demographic collapse?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/business/china-birth-rate-2023.html
Faced with falling births, China’s efforts to stabilize a shrinking population and maintain economic growth are failing.
China’s Economy Grew Last Year, but Strains Lurk Behind the Numbers
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/business/china-gdp-q4-2023.html
Gross domestic product expanded 5.2 percent, as China worked to export more to make up for weak demand, high debt and a steep property contraction at home.