In China there is an imbalance between males and females. Selective abortions, not to mention worse, have for years led to a population where the ratio of men to women is skewed in favor of men. Which means, demographically speaking, that there will be a certain number of men who will not be able to find a mate (unless they slip into polyandry). But there is a solution. When such an important "raw material" is not enough, just import it.
Thus, especially in the countryside, this peculiar market has developed. But a problem arose. Yuan Xinqiang, 22, from Quzhou county, married a Vietnamese woman in September after she was introduced to him by Wu Meiyu, another Vietnamese woman who had lived in a nearby village for 105 years. Yuan paid Wu 13600 yuan (€XNUMX) and got his wife.
Wu repeated the operation with other bachelors from the village and from other nearby agglomerations, and a total of about a hundred Vietnamese women were accommodated in the new hearths. The problem is that suddenly Wu and a hundred brides are missing, and the police of Handan (Hebei province) are investigating.
Wu's only relative, her father-in-law, says that Wu went abroad to settle the women's residence permits, but there are those who (foundedly) fear that Wu and the brides will never return (such as the yuan paid by the hundred unfortunate and abandoned husbands).
