61% Support Plan to Relax Visas for Foreign Ladies
The combination of China's one-child policy and conservative social customs has resulted in a gender imbalance so great that for tens of millions of men, finding a marriage partner is soon to become next to impossible.
With the stakes so high, China's experts and public are suggesting that a great way to fix this problem is to simply balance the shortfall by importing women from overseas.
A recent poll published by The Beijing News found that 61 percent of respondents favor policies that encourage overseas women to come to China as a way to address the "bachelor crisis", as it is called in the Chinese media. Conducted by The Beijing News and a Tsinghua University think thank, the poll surveyed 1,017 people, half of whom are university-educated.
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