The numbers are alarming. In the awakening economic giant that is China, young boys now outnumber young girls by 17 percent—a trend of imbalance that has only accelerated since the late 1980s. In the provinces of Hainan, a rural island, and Guangdong, a booming urban environment, the figure reaches a frightening 30 percent. What will happen when these children grow up? Mercenary marriages, female abductions, worker shortages, and far-reaching economic depression are just the beginning, according to China's National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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