After dating a woman for several years, a man from northwest China said he had to break up with her because he couldn’t afford the nearly 300,000 yuan bride price when they considered marriage.
In Zhengning county, Gansu province, northwest China where Qin lives, the average annual income was just over 20,000 yuan last year, meaning it would take 15 years to raise the money demanded as the bride price by Qin’s girlfriend’s family. “But rectifying high bride prices is a long-term and complicated process and it’s quite difficult for it to be changed by any hard and fast rule,” it added.
Last year, the gender ratio in rural areas was about 108 males for every 100 females, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Li Guofu, a villager from Zhaotong, Yunnan, southwestern China, said there are plenty of single men, known as “guanggun”, in his hometown who can’t find a wife because they can’t afford the bride price.
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