No wedding bells for rural young men

THE SPRING FESTIVAL HOLIDAY is always a busy time for matchmakers. But the success rate is quite low. China Youth Daily comments:

The most difficult group for matchmakers is male farmers more than 30 years old. The unbalanced ratio of men to women in villages and their lack of means put them in a disadvantaged position in the competition for a wife.

It is no surprise that some poor villages in the inland areas are filled with single men, as most local women have found better-off husbands elsewhere or they work in cities as migrant workers. Few women would like to marry poor men in the rural villages. This has been recognized as a social problem by many.