China: bachelor central

China is on course to becoming the world's largest bachelor headquarter in the coming decades, when about 23m men of marriage age will be unable to find a female partner, researchers reported at an international population conference. The trend is driven by China's one-child policy which has spurred the rapid decline in fertility from its peak of 7.5 children per woman in the 1960s to 1.7 in 2001, coupled with a preference for male children.