As someone who lives in China, I can vouch for some of the ideas expressed here. They have a phrase that basically says you need a car and a house before you're

As someone who lives in China, I can vouch for some of the ideas expressed here. They have a phrase that basically says you need a car and a house before you're considered eligible for marriage. For a number of reasons, however, many of the things described in this article can't last forever: younger people (known here as "jiu ling hou" or post-90s generation) typically are far less concerned about saving money, and love to spend. The one child policy has been relaxed too - if you were both single children born after the 80s, from an ethnic minority, live in one or two of the biggest cities or live in the countryside and your first child was a girl you can have a second child. Also a little-reported and not officially recognised fact is that the statistics are not as bad as they seem. In China, you must register your child (for a "hu kou") in order for them to get an education etc. In the countryside many families will choose to only register their first son so as not to incur fines. This means that there are likely millions of women and girls out there not recognised by the state.