50 percent urban women do not want to get married in China
By Lokmat English Desk | Published: October 16, 2021 03:40 PM2021-10-16T15:40:36+5:302021-10-16T15:40:36+5:30
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If you're a young, city-dwelling Chinese woman, there's a close to 50% chance you're planning to never get married. That's according to a new survey of China's young urban population conducted by a wing of China's Communist Youth League.
The survey polled 2,905 unmarried youths living in Chinese cities between the ages of 18 and 26. It found that 44% of its female respondents did not intend to get married, with a sizeable 25% of the survey's male respondents saying the same.
As for why these Chinese Gen Z-ers don't want to get hitched, 34.5% of those surveyed cited "not having the time or energy to get married." Meanwhile, 60.8% of the Chinese Gen Z-ers polled said they found it "difficult to find the right person."
Participants mentioned several other reasons for not getting married, including the financial cost of marriage and the economic burden of having children. A third of the respondents also said they did not believe in marriage, and a similar percentage said they had never been in love.
These survey results are a bad sign for China, which this year attempted to put in place new policies to ramp up its birth rate. The country reported a 70% drop in its divorce rate in the first quarter of 2021 after it put in place a "cooling-off" law, which mandated that local authorities wait one month before approving couples' divorces.
The law was implemented in a bid to boost China's flagging birth rate by discouraging impulsive divorces. This May, China also launched a new three-child policy, lifting its previous ban on having more than two children per couple.The scrapping of the two-child policy was the second time in five years that China made a significant change to its population control guidelines. In 2016, the Chinese government reversed its one-child policy, which was implemented in 1979 to suppress the country's population boom.