Beijing: According to a report, China has 3.3 million more men than women due to a decades-old single child policy. To meet this gender inequality, thousands of poor women from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam are sold for marriage in China every year. Some of these women are brought here by force.
The safety of women is a major challenge in Myanmar. These marriages are performed by the woman's family or village elders, making women unable to refuse it either. According to the report, young girls are sold for 10 to 15 thousand dollars. In China, they are married to old, sick and disabled people. Reportedly, 7,500 women from the war-affected Kachin and northern Shan states of Myanmar were trafficked and taken to China for marriage.
Most of these were also forced by the husband to bear a child. According to the report, women are leaving Myanmar due to conflict, poverty and displacement, while the imbalance in the number of men and women, especially in rural China, is in high demand for wife.
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