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BEIJING, Dec 6 — Chinese teen Robin spends hours online chatting to her man, who always has a sympathetic ear for her problems — as long as she’s willing to pay him. The 19-year-old pre-medical student has spent more than ¥1,000 (RM591) speaking to “virtual boyfriends”. These aren’t...

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This photo taken on November 12, 2019 shows ‘virtual boyfriend’ Zhuansun Xu, 22, talking to a girlfriend on his phone while playing a mobile game in his room in Beijing. — AFP pic

Shops selling virtual friends and partners can be found on Chinese messaging app WeChat or on an e-commerce site like Taobao. “While we’re interacting, I tell myself: I really am her boyfriend, so how can I treat her well?” he told AFP.Prices start from a few yuan for half an hour of texting, to a few thousand yuan to keep a companion on retainer for phone calls throughout a month.

A preference for boys meant a generation of sex-selective abortions and abandoned baby girls, and in 2018, China still had the world’s most skewed gender ratio at 114 boys born for every 100 girls.Parents of the female children “raised them as sons”, says Roseann Lake, author of a book on China’s unmarried women.

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