Table on the ratio of men and women in China provinces in 2020
The plan also proposes to increase assistance to family planning families, comprehensively control the problem of high sex ratio at birth, improve the service management mechanism of floating population, strengthen the information construction of population and family planning and strategic policy research, and deepen international cooperation and exchanges.
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20 17 Zhai Zhenwu, director of the Population and Development Research Center of China Renmin University and president of the China Population Society, said in an interview that one of the biggest social problems caused by the high sex ratio at birth is the' leftover man crisis' or' bachelor crisis'.
Since the mid-1980s, there have been more boys than girls born every year in China, and they have accumulated year by year. It is estimated that in the next 30 years, there will be nearly 30 million more men entering marriageable age than women. Unless these marriageable men choose to marry older women, there will be nearly 30 million "leftover men" in China in the future if they all find partners of their own age and below.