February 23, 2021
Women sit and talk as they wait to meet men during a matchmaking event in Shanghai, May 18, 2013.
Reuters
An expert’s proposal to solve the looming social crisis caused by China’s gender imbalance by matchmaking urban “leftover” women with rural unmarried men has sparked controversy.
Wu Xiuming, deputy secretary general of the Shanxi Think Tank Development Association, a non-governmental organisation in central China that specialises in social development research, has called for authorities to urgently address a rise in the number of unmarried people by encouraging the migration of urban single women to rural areas, where millions of unmarried men are looking for brides.