24m single men in 2020?

2400萬國人將無妻可娶?

China will have 24 million more males reaching marriageable age than females in 2020, according to the 2010 "Society Blue Book" released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the People's Daily reported Thursday. China is in a crisis of demographic imbalance among the population under the age of 19. When they reach marriage age, millions of males, most of them poor, will struggle to find a wife.

據《人民日報》8日報道，社會科學院發布的2010年《社會藍皮書》指出，到2020年，中國處于婚齡的男性人數將比女性多出2400萬。目前，我國19歲以下年齡段的人口性別比嚴重失衡。待他們進入結婚年齡，將有上千萬適齡男性面臨"娶妻難"的問題，而這些"光棍"主要以貧困男性居多。

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