China’s Marriage rate is declining year by year, while the divorce rate is on the rise. Some data show that the gender ratio between men and women in China is seriously imbalanced, and the single population in China may reach 400 million in the future.
On Feb. 14, 21st Century Business reported that according to statistics from the Ministry of Civil Affairs: the single adult population in China was as high as 240 million in 2018, with 77 million of them living alone. It is also estimated that the second number will rise to 92 million by 2021.
The marriage rate in China has been declining one after another in recent years, and the divorce rate continues to rise, resulting in a growing population of singles. The market expects that China’s single population will reach 400 million in the future.
According to the data, the official agencies of the Communist Party of China registered 13.469 million marriages in 2013, followed by six consecutive years of decline. 9.471 million marriages were registered at marriage registration offices in 2019, falling below 10 million for the first Time, down 30 percent from 2013, according to the Chinese media “China Business News”.
On the other hand, Chinese marriage registration offices registered 4,154,000 divorce pairs in 2019, nearly half of the number of marriages registered.
As China’s divorce rate rises year by year, the marriage rate is rapidly declining, so is the birth rate. According to a report released by the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China, a total of 11.79 million newborns were born and registered for household registration in 2019, a decline of about 14.9% in 2020 compared to 2019 under the same caliber.
The continued rapid growth of China’s divorce rate has received attention from the outside world. A late March 2016 article by the British news agency Reuters opened a discussion on the meaning of marriage in contemporary China, citing the performance art of a man and woman at a marriage registry in Beijing who got married and divorced in a flash within 48 hours. The article pointed out that young Chinese people who do not want to follow the traditional path of marriage are fighting against the traditional values of marriage.
Overseas Chinese media outlet New Tang Dynasty reported that independent commentator on China, Li Shanjian, said, “In a normal society, especially in a traditional society, whether it is Chinese or foreign, marriage is actually viewed very seriously. Marriage is first and foremost a responsibility of both parties to the marriage to each other. And his marriage is very closely linked to his entire faith, and his moral values, and it is these beliefs, traditions and values that make marriage very stable.”
Li Shanjian pointed out that this traditional values and ethics that maintain stable marriages and Family harmony have been destroyed in recent decades, causing a sea change in the way young people view marriage and family now.
Li Shanjian said, now people’s entire connotation of traditional marriage have abandoned, he completely imagined that marriage is a personal preference, like it or not which, this fetish built entirely on emotions, he has no sense of responsibility, he is unstable.
In addition, according to the “China Statistical Yearbook 2020” released by the National Bureau of Statistics of the Communist Party of China, by the end of 2019, the national gender ratio of men and women reached 104.46, of which 101.28 for ages 30 to 34, 106.65 for ages 25 to 29, 114.61 for ages 20 to 24, and 118.39 for ages 15 to 19. not only are there more men than women, but as the age drops Not only are there more males than females, but as the age decreases, the ratio of males to females expands further.
It is believed that the gender imbalance in China is the result of the “family planning” policy implemented by the Chinese Communist Party for decades.
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