China currently has 24 million men of marriageable age who have not found a life partner. This situation causes many single men in China to face many difficulties.
In rural areas of China, three decades of sex-selective abortions due to the one-child policy have caused This country has a serious imbalance between men and women.
In addition, with the rapid economic development taking place mainly in cities in China, more and more young women choose to leave. poor rural villages to search urban areas jobs and a better life.
Men in rural China are not The only one struggling to find a life partner. Divorced men also have difficulties when they are not enough finance to take care of the second wedding. In China the groom’s family is expected to buy a house for the newlyweds and give the bride’s family an average dowry of about $20,000.
And like many places around the world, women China is marrying later and later.
Therefore, more and more Chinese men are going abroad to find wives. Most of them look for Vietnamese women.
Cross-border love stories
It is very difficult to accurately calculate the number of marriages with foreigners in China because some foreign brides “go underground” and do not register with local authorities.
According to Xinhua News Agency‘s statistics, more than 100,000 Vietnamese women Men in China marry Chinese men. This number is much larger than women from other countries, for example, there are only about 7,000 brides in China who are Cambodian.
Not all weddings are between Chinese men and women. Vietnamese women all start from a romantic relationship.
At least 5% of marriages between Chinese men and Vietnamese women are tricked into crossing the border. They are often poor women who are lured to China by friends or relatives with the promise of a high-paying job.
Girls from Vietnam are often sold into brothels in big cities. After several months or years of being forced into prostitution they are sold again. This time it is in the hands of poor, older Chinese men who are looking for wives. According to a 2014 study, these men often know in advance that their wives are victims of human trafficking.
Meanwhile, other Chinese men go through matchmaking channels. professionally to have the opportunity to meet Vietnamese women. This is an illegal but booming “industry” in China. On average, a matchmaker can earn 4,000 USD per case.
There are currently no official statistics on this service so it is difficult to know how many cross-border marriages there are. The Vietnamese-Chinese relationship originates from matchmaking services.
However, a study has shown that in border areas about 10% of marriages between Vietnamese and Chinese are through marriage. online broker. In areas far from the border, this rate is much higher because single Chinese men have few opportunities to meet Vietnamese women directly.
In Vietnam, many women are under pressure. huge not only in getting married but also supporting the family financially. For them, China is a rich country with many job opportunities.
Therefore, Vietnamese girls can look to brokers because for them, marrying Chinese men Quoc can help them satisfy the above needs. Besides China, Korea is also where more and more Vietnamese brides choose to get married.
Victims of scams
However According to Wei Li, associate professor of sociology at Frostburg University, online marriage brokers do not always provide women with accurate information about the men they want to marry.</ p>
Vietnamese brides are often promised by brokers to marry a young, never-married and rich Chinese husband to lure them into “rosy” marriage prospects. But in China, some Vietnamese brides will be surprised to discover that their fiance is not only poor but also old and often divorced.
Some Vietnamese brides end up will return home before or immediately after getting married in China. In this case, the brokers from the groom’s family will often help their “clients” divorce for a fee. However, usually these brokers will not refund the brokerage fee to the groom.
Chinese men looking for foreign wives may take risks and become victims themselves. victims of scams.
Chinese media recently reported on many cases of marriage fraud. Accordingly, some Vietnamese women join hands with Chinese marriage brokers to go to villages in China, pretend to love a local man, get married and move to this person’s house to live. Not long after the groom’s family gives the dowry, the Vietnamese bride will run away even though the dowry for a foreign bride is only 70% of that for a Chinese bride.
China has witnessed We have seen many cases of organized marriage fraud when dozens of foreign brides came to villages in China and then ran away en masse.
Although the concept still exists in China that men who marry foreigners are “losers” because they cannot find suitable Chinese wives and their partners are “gold diggers”. However, about half of the Chinese-Vietnamese couples interviewed by Wei Li said they lived very happily.
“I have a wife and a son. What more do I need?” said Jin Gang, a 31-year-old chef in Henan Province, China.
Jin’s wife, a Vietnamese woman, said that her life in China is even better than in her home country.< /p>
Thanh Dat
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