{"id":23987,"date":"2024-01-28T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T05:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/chinese-village-to-offer-cash-reward-to-matchmakers-amid-rural-bachelor-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T05:48:48","slug":"chinese-village-to-offer-cash-reward-to-matchmakers-amid-rural-bachelor-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/chinese-village-to-offer-cash-reward-to-matchmakers-amid-rural-bachelor-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese village to offer cash reward to matchmakers amid rural ‘bachelor crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why is marriage on the decline?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A Chinese village is offering incentives to matchmakers to help bachelors tie the knot.<\/p>\n

The Xiangjiazhuang village committee will give a reward of 600 to 1,000 yuan (US $84 to US $140) to matchmakers who successfully facilitate a marriage, state media outlet The South China Morning Post said.<\/p>\n

According to the outlet, the program will start on Jan 1 next year and continue for three years.<\/p>\n

The village committee said that the financial incentive came due to the increasing number of unmarried young men in the village, the committee said.<\/p>\n

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The money will come from the village’s collective funds, the outlet said.<\/p>\n

The local outlet said that the concern came after the severely declining birthrate in the Xiangjiazhuang village community.<\/p>\n

The community is compiled of approximately 270 households and there are more than 40 unmarried young men between the ages of 25 and 40 within the village.<\/p>\n

Officials said there were just 7 to 8 births in the village this year, compared to around 16 to 17 annually in previous years.<\/p>\n

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The Xiangjiazhuang village’s decision comes as political advisors in China work to come up with creative ways to boost the birth rate.<\/p>\n

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The proposals to boost the birth rate range from subsidies for families raising their first child, rather than just the second and third, to expanding free public education<\/u> and improving access to fertility treatments.<\/p>\n

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China dug itself into a demographic hole largely through its one-child policy<\/u> imposed between 1980 and 2015. Authorities raised the limit to three in 2021, but even during the stay at home COVID times couples have been reluctant to have babies.<\/p>\n

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Young people cite high childcare and education costs, low incomes, a feeble social safety net and gender inequalities, as discouraging factors.<\/p>\n

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