Hardly any Chinese people today are interested in getting married. Expect the flame of desire to grow even more weak as the nation ages and becomes less productive. This is why China’s marriage crisis is an existential threat to the country.
President Xi Jinping recently pledged to begin multi-pronged steps to address China's dramatically dropping birth rate. Behind the dramatic rhetoric, however, is a genuinely frightening fact: new regulations are unlikely to be sufficient to halt China's population slide. This is why.
Having a kid outside of marriage is still frowned upon in China, a country with a highly traditional culture. Marriage and parenthood are linked with having children. The communist country's marriage rates dropped to a 35-year low last year. The dramatic decline in marriage vows coincides with China's approaching demographic catastrophe. The lowest number of marriages since 1986 were registered in 2021 with 7.6 million. China is facing existential issues as ...