Runaway 'bride prices' are making marriage unaffordable in rural China...
BEIJING - Runaway “bride prices” are making marriage unaffordable in rural China and need to be capped, and professional matchmakers should be stopped from overcharging, says a village delegate to China’s parliament.
In the past, a suitor would offer the parents of his bride about 11,000 yuan . Now, future in-laws demand at least three “jin” of hundred yuan bills, a car and a house, said Zhang Qingbin, a delegate to the annual National People’s Congress from Hebei province. In rural areas, where annual per capita incomes of about 15,000 yuan are just a third of earnings in cities, a groom’s need for cash is relatively acute.
Marriage subsidies could be one way to wedded bliss, he said, pointing to a pilot subsidy program in Taiyuan city in neighboring Shanxi province.
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