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China wants more babies, but many women have other plans Posted : 2021-03-08 16:21 Updated : 2021-03-08 16:23 A woman takes a photo of her ice cream along a street in Shanghai on March 5, 2021. AFP At a time when China needs to get its population growing, China's women have other priorities. Among those priorities is building a career and that leads to a delay in marriage and childbirth, or forgoing having a family altogether. And while Beijing uses a heavy hand to curb social activism, it has not slowed a growing feminist movement, with women demanding what women elsewhere want: equality ...

23 Feb 2021 The director of a Chinese social development think tank recently proposed unmarried Chinese women over the age of 27 — known as “leftover” women or sheng nu in China — should embrace the surplus of single men in rural China to find a husband, the South China Morning Post reported Tuesday. “Leftover” women — most of whom reside in Chinese urban centers and are highly educated — should not “feel afraid to go and live in rural villages,” according to Wu Xiuming, the deputy secretary-general of the Shanxi Think Tank Development Association, a non-governmental or...

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...