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Our World: China's Love Hunters

28/09/2013 GMT

China's Love Hunters

BBC News - Our World, China's Love Hunters

Lucy Ash reports on how China's dating game has turned into survival of the fittest.

Lucy Ash reports on how an increasing gender imbalance in China and the country's frenetic economic growth has turned the dating game into survival of the fittest.

By the end of this decade 24 million Chinese men won't be able to find wives. A preference for baby boys and the termination of pregnancies which would have produced girls has led to an increasing gender imbalance, exacerbated by China's 'one child policy'. The country's frenetic economic growth has also turned the dating game into survival of the fittest. Lucy Ash reports.

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