Posted on 01/30/2005 5:36:33 PM PST by Lorianne
ANXI, China For farming families in the lush mountains of Fujian Province, the famous crop is oolong tea and the favorite source of labor is sons. The leafy bushes of tea fill the hillsides the same way young boys fill the village streets. . There is such a glut of boys here: roughly 134 are born for every 100 girls. That the imbalance has forced an unlikely response from the Chinese government. To persuade more families to have girls, it has decided in some cases to pay families that already have daughters.
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The law of unintended consequences. China will probably have a war soon to kill off a few million young men who have no prospects of ever getting married.
Last March, President Hu Jintao declared that it must be solved by 2010.
I foresee a lot of involuntary sex change operations coming.
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