The Communist Party’s 2020 census data, despite half a year of “embellishment,” still does not conceal the demographic crisis. In addition to the obvious aging trend, the census figures show that there are 34.9 million more men than women. Officials claim that only half of them are marriageable, but dare not respond to the question of whether many are “unable to find wives.
The Communist Party’s decades-long family planning policy has led to a serious imbalance in the ratio of men to women, and in recent years the situation of men of marriageable age not being able to find marriage partners has become increasingly serious. The Communist Party’s 2020 census results partly confirm this claim.
The census data released by the authorities on May 11 showed that there are 34.9 million more men than women in the population. This is six months after the Communist Party’s statistics bureau “embellished” the results, and the real situation remains a mystery.
On May 17, Fu Linghui, a spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics of the Communist Party of China, said at a press conference in response to the claim that there were more than 30 million bachelors, that among the marriageable age group of 20-40 years old, there were only 17.52 million more men than women, with a sex ratio of 108.9. He also said that age was only “one aspect” that affected marital relationships. He also said that age is only “one of the aspects” that affect marriage relationships, and that the sex ratio at birth is “also declining” with the change in fertility policy.
However, data from the census show that the sex ratio at birth is 111.3, which is higher than the existing sex ratio for the marriageable age group.
The census results were scheduled to be released in April this year, but were delayed indefinitely. Only after public skepticism did the authorities release the data in May. According to the outside world, this indicates that the census results were quite “grim” and the authorities had to step up efforts to revise the data.
The net rumor suggests that not only did the National Bureau of Statistics need to do the final “processing” of the data, but also that census workers at the lowest level may have been falsifying the data from the very beginning of the census.
A screenshot from a Chinese netizen’s report.
In recent years, there has been widespread concern that marriageable men are having difficulty getting married. In response, Communist Party experts have proposed so-called solutions such as “polygamy” and “matching leftover urban women with leftover rural men,” which have repeatedly provoked criticism from netizens.
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