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in china women are in short supply. millions more men than women. so when it comes time to marry the odds aren't good. it's estimated one in five men won't be able to find a bright a personal and also national disaster. i'm steve on this episode of one used we meet the men resorting to drastic action to avoid a life alone. she has just come out of the mall her name is one five nice because she is one

point five eight majors to move. in a few hours she will have a nice hair and eyes. she exists because there's a lack of women in china. for thirty five years more boys have been born here than girls. it's resulted in a severe gender imbalance that endangered the country's stability. k'naan is china's most populated problem. at the same time it's the place with the fewest women. months we was born here in the village of. already over the normal i have marriage here in the countryside. but lang's we can't find a wife he still lives with his parents and others did it by hand i see. god

. let me send my new film i got an idea we are not having a gala i am an asshole that. you know we do. not have one hundred. and i have the money to afford to one. months we isn't the only one around here looking for a wife there are hundreds of so-called bachelor villages in the region each one full of single men desperately looking for women to marry. in nineteen seventy nine china introduced the one child policy it was meant to avoid overpopulation but in the countryside some is a much more desirable because they can work in the fields. doing yeah yeah and that's one of quite often you have had to say are you. the guy are you not

a young boy when you are. well now. i want to add a. fair bit i. thought that i was. a little conqueror. thank you how. these days doctors are not allowed to reveal the gender of the unborn baby but some still do this why did it with the hope of a bride. even today slogans like this extolling the benefits of girls are displayed around the village. but the preference for boys is a long and lasting tradition here they say that raising a girl is like cultivating someone else's field because a girl moves into her husband's bam after marriage. couples wish for a son to take care of them as they i age and to carry on the family night so it

goes continue to be a balls one hundred sixteen boys a boom for every one hundred goes she shivered to me or found. out just a lot i thought you know it that. was it. so the right direction. lonsway works in the fields and does occasional jobs so far no girl has considered him a good match the lone woman. in the job and i feel i have made a. great senator. i had minima of value to their home in the end.

yama fish. him. and you know blood him home on earth to wear me out although he just several batches from the village have gone abroad to maine ma vietnam the philippines or laos despond lives down there what kind of are in the game the only one out on the just say in the video my ram i am new to the world. same as you and your trade some are to say how. in china men without wives a cold. which means dead branches that won't bear fruit. many try their luck in the city every day thousands of single men move to the pearl river delta in china south to the factory of the low. p.-a sixty thousand factories employ three to four million workers. the young people

working here day in knox hospital so booking for their somatics in this factory which manufactures smartphones in modems all the workers are under thirty thousands of kilometers from their homes they toil on the assembly line the ice hours a day like shall young he's twenty four years old and comes from a bachelor village side then link you yeah well you. sing and they go. they will tell anybody anything done to just play with them all. in the d.c. bomb. sequence in august and. they are going to need them all for a long time then go ahead and long civil and then and builds in a day and then they go looking for someone down people saw. and then i think you wish again the. couples come together and break up

on the assembly line. function they haven't. been. having it and then this. is the single. for a long time women were in the majority on the factory floors but that's changing. the lack of women has reached the pole river delta it's even affecting factory operations says dr e. executive. now you're right. it is a wonder she's shocked so much and thing is i. think. i'm going to shiver. yet you cannot say i'm young innocent down the street. and. you know. my i didn't. believe that one doesn't mean i'm.

not i know that she knew me you know and that way. i know this and yet know that what you see was that. she. checked. on the bright smartphones help destruct the mail workers from their frustration and learnings. before you shall go on as life has consisted of going back and forth between the assembly line his dorm room and the canteen. but he still hasn't won the attention of a female colleague. cancelling you had they not get back.

assaults and sexual wants are getting more frequent in the factories. and for what you. now only tell what you. want most. yet. to come out of my. shell you'll make seven hundred dollars a month so he's not the pool rich but he hopes one of these women give you a chance because he's atoned boss could hold one. he plays in the factories team and he's one of the best clients son done.

in. south london and the high you would know you in at least. some months we're going. to keep about. just a few why you should then book and bomb on. you and then you shouldn't. even condos and you can't on the down the bank which a good way to get it go down the cost and the. rates. suck on a. team quickly. i know you. and myself because. i think my high school. i. went and bought that isis on full funding. he shot himself.

in the chinese authorities have investigation the problem of gender imbalance there are thirty to forty million more men than women. it's predicted that in five years one fifth of all chinese men won't be able to find a want. to leaving got married in two thousand and eight but then his wife disappeared three years he's driven aboard across china looking for. i just or will still be in the uk which it was yeah. i don't know how to meet out with her fido. on the delays in finally. side through the windows out so i went out. of it in those it sounds odd to go on the back. and bought the oldest. some of it that. she sent over to not sell a saloon but. lou being looked in all the police stations hospitals and funeral

homes in the region he even offered a reward of almost ten thousand dollars all of his savings there's been no trace of her at all because nobody has been found he believes that she's being held prisoner in the mountains illness or the. sea out see it to about. what was it doesn't quite make you know he did it or. how it is and what size of the members. of the elite the. just before luke beings wife disappeared they had a daughter q. teen. her mother's parents are raising her while her father keeps up his search for her mother. is seven years old.

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a pop gun play. out it was all off back. to the. big searching the countryside on his own is no longer enough now he's putting these clips on this playing card. the two of spades in a very special pack of cards. thirteen thousand kilometers away he's choosing on china's east coast. taxi drivers give out packs of cards to part of the barca apple value and got a magical you know kind of the say you're going to come out right now there's a guy that connor gang is on the hook with i knew somebody who was an academic you should know churches want. other drivers from can tone in the south to dolly and in the north are also involved. they use they taxis

to distribute the cards in villages they suspect might house abducted women and he'll look at you look i'm a. liar. what are the religion you are. leaving your initial there's such a church as a well it that's how well and you model what turned out well. sandia not up on. the cards with the idea of computer scientist shane home. after reading about abduction cases he wanted to help first he launched a website to find them then came the idea of the cuts giving them a way to increase the search radius from them with acid and. intrigue you watching it what was your father at home watching a c c and i gave up a hill and she wanted to that it also should achieve his i.q. although she should not comment on the shot.

every day shanghai receives anonymous messages from people who think they've seen the queen of hearts the four diamonds the families who report another missing person. he also helps parents of missing children. he's thirty thousand surge reports aboard the side of twenty women kidnapped by human traffickers. but the two of spades blew beings one is still missing. as usual has a headline died he didn't eat jack and then you do it and you know it was him you know you. what are the authorities doing to stop the trafficking of women. not of the ministry of public security in beijing nor its regional branch is a willing to speak to us. but they did send us these videos. a policeman

conducting checks on a trying all that very often i was on assignment in the countryside. and this vision of a crackdown in the you know region in the country south. africa it showed the arrest of several hundred tropicals among the two women who allegedly sold on the women. these videos were probably made for chinese t.v. as evidence that the earth origin is a doing everything they can to prevent women from being kidnapped. they even showed traffic is being interrogated i wasn't i wasn't that not even the time of the trial all the time was apparently and they are all. ideas that you and i'll get you just have to measure the face of the cause you're going to get which is a thing you should know that as you push up and see who it was she got off others

are mostly. when it comes to that oh i should when i need to that level that sounds. as digital to the british traditional view on the issue is that it. is often should be used. to look in the last year the chinese police say they have saved thirty thousand women trafficking networks are uncovered every month traffickers can receive sentences of ten years in prison. the men who by the women can get sentences of three years. we meet up again with months with the bachelor from here not in the shanghai train station. months way has been in indonesia for two months he isn't alone anymore on the phone and my.

his wife is called line. she's from an indonesian seaside village. she's riding on a train for the first time. non-sweet fools lie. cheat. sheet for. what all was well then i get that from all on you mean you have them with you on what the what the oil. but. i think it had a name and may well be old. but. anyway in that case it would say. it's you know nothing to me it's a it's an amendment and you. can stand on top and

then go and. lonsway paid traffic is more than ten thousand dollars lies father received a part of that money for his daughter's hand in law i learned to be said manda read from watching chinese t.v. she is the fifth woman from her village to marry a chinese man who said you know if i was. there. i did are my mama. of all of the developers all chrysalis said to the off on i was just. well i am. dying being able. to develop a little girl. just. a. lot

doesn't know what cloud of life she will have in china she was told by the traffic the new husband is rich and she thinks she will have been easy a life then in indonesia. the money you can. get. to. lie has arrived in gongs on the bachelor village. saw.

she will live with the new husband's parents. lance we bought her to the country on a family residence permit which lie will have to re new every year but she doesn't have a work permit. yet. how . to do this for the. on track. place to carry out. my my mother my. mom doesn't understand the local dialect. well every. now and them.

you know i. gather you. figure out how you. live we'll probably never see indonesia or again. in laws sacrificed too much to risk escaping. through the town. but how many women can solve and how many men must live alone before tradition is legard. and the births of both boys and girls are accepted and celebrated with equal joy. china stopped the one child policy in twenty fifteen. couples and now allowed to

have two children maybe it's time to remember another chinese saying women hold up half the sky. largest catholic country is witnessing a dramatic rise in teenage pregnancy. when used investigates why so many filipino children are having babies. at this time on al-jazeera. i sometimes feel that when i'm really looking into the hosam the soul of those directly involved in events taking place very good at telling all sides of the story from the political elite to those people who've been affected you really get to know what's happening on the ground that's very important for me as a third generation past that can often feel that my continent is misrepresented and we've changed that your story is important to us it doesn't matter where you come

from. doing this for the benefit of people. so bad to see being bald and all these. witnesses documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. and london put it on the. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war.

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