China has a state sponsored program for touching grass, and now they have a state sponsored program for eating ass.
"So how did you meet each other whats the story ? "
"Oh its actually very Romantic .. In 1921 the chinese communist party was founded and so ... "
How I met your mother but there's a 5 season long tangent about the cultural revolution.
Yeah, there's certainly more of an incentive for it to actually find long-term matches.
Inb4 baseless claims that your quality of matches is based on your social credit score
lol i wonder if matching straight edge boring people with party animals who get in trouble is better or worse than not doing that.
I wouldnt mind someone dragging me to parties so I can stand awkwardly in the corner
no. The "prevent feminization" proposal and cultivation of students' "masculinity" proposals were two different things, and the former was proposed by one NPC delegate out of almost 3000. Speaking of the latter, the term used “阳刚之气”, is gender neutral term which is here referring to "to develop good exercise habits and a healthy lifestyle, to temper a strong will, and to cultivate a spirit of cooperation." It is a program to develop physical education, so they’re not banning femboys, just making them buff
Only Domestically sourced femboys, none of that south korean shit
instituting a femboy tariff, um dont ask how the tariff is paid
20 story commercial high-rise full of busy-body aunties gossiping about their nephews and nieces.
The Guardian's coverage goes out of its way to mention that this is for straight men and women only.
no it doesn't
how are people upvoting this bollocks lmao
hexbear posters actually read challenge
Seems like there's some concern that the city government is essentially making profiles for single people using their own data? Quote from article:
“A matchmaking platform established by the government is more trusted than commercial ones that you need to pay for yourself at least,” said one Weibo user, defending Jiangxi’s efforts. “But we still need to take care of our private information.”
Some Chinese cities desperately want their residents to get hitched.
Amid the lowest national marriage rate in decades, several cities in the eastern province of Jiangxi have launched matchmaking initiatives, with one city going as far as creating a database of its unmarried residents, the state-run China Youth Daily reported Thursday. The effort is said to be part of the provincial plan to “reform marriage customs,” which will promote new traditions while getting rid of the archaic practice of betrothal gifts, including cash and other items.
The city of Guixi has already rolled out a mini-app with matchmaking services for local residents and also plans to organize events for singles seeking to mingle. As of Friday, information about individuals who were still single, however, wasn’t accessible on the mini-app, and it’s unclear if the decision to join is voluntary or if the authorities would make the information available to all.
Sixth Tone’s calls for comments to the “matchmaking consulting hotline” number on the mini-app went unanswered Friday.
China’s marriage rate has been freefalling lately, as many young people are less keen on settling down compared with the previous generation. Only 11.58 million people got married for the first time in 2021, the lowest number since 1985.
The lackluster attitude toward marriage and the country’s record low birth rates have created new challenges for local governments trying to boost the figures. Both local and central governments have initiated various schemes, some of which were financial, to encourage people to tie the knot and have more children in the past few years.
In Yushan County of Jiangxi, the local government has now created an internal specialized database to track those who have forged a relationship after its matchmaking drive, according to the China Youth Daily. Local officials also plan to follow up on the couple’s relationship status and provide tips on making things work for it to eventually lead to marriage.
“We shall form a closed-loop service system to help the young meet, fall in love, and get married,” the Yushan government told the China Youth Daily.
In provinces like Jiangxi, the gender imbalance — there were 1.5 million more men than women in 2021 — and high betrothal gifts have been blamed for the low marriage rate, with people calling for more regulations to tame the latter. A 2020 report from tech giant Tencent showed that Jiangxi’s residents gave the fourth highest betrothal gifts nationally, amounting to an average of 112,000 yuan ($16,300).
Jiangxi’s latest matchmaking initiative has had a mixed reaction online — while some gave a thumbs up to the local government’s efforts, others questioned if it was legal for authorities to collect personal information of single people for matchmaking purposes. Some users on microblogging platform Weibo also said they were worried about their privacy, especially if such information would end up online without their consent.
“A matchmaking platform established by the government is more trusted than commercial ones that you need to pay for yourself at least,” said one Weibo user, defending Jiangxi’s efforts. “But we still need to take care of our private information.”
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“Why is there no database for rapists or domestic violence abusers?” another user retorted.
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For single people, dating fatigue is a universal phenomenon. Hours of swiping left can lead to despair at the potential matches in your area. One city in Jiangxi, a province in eastern China, reckons that it has come up with a solution for the lovelorn or love-weary: a state-sponsored matchmaking service.
Guixi, a city of about 640,000 people, has launched an app that uses data on single residents to build a matchmaking platform. The app is known as “Palm Guixi” and includes a platform for organising blind dates, according to China Youth Daily, a state-run newspaper.
The app is part of a province-wide initiative to boost the marriage rate, which has been falling nationwide for the past decade. In 2021 there were 5.4 marriages per 1,000 people, compared with six in the US.
Elsewhere in Jiangxi, local governments are organising in-person events to get people mingling. In Gao’an city, about 100 young singles attended an event in Ruizhou Fuya park where they could dress up in traditional clothes, play games and “get closer” to each other as they felt “the profoundness of Chinese culture”.
One of the main pillars of the Jiangxi pilot is a campaign against high “bride prices”. In recent years the government has discouraged the traditional practice of a potential groom offering a bride’s family cash before marriage. The country’s civil code prohibits “the exaction of money or gifts in connection with marriage”. But in practice the tradition remains common, especially in rural areas. In 2022 Jiangxi topped an unofficial nationwide ranking of bride prices, with an average of 380,000 yuan (£45,000).
Through a combination of public awareness campaigns and limits on extravagant wedding ceremonies and banquets, Shicheng county claims to have virtually eliminated “betrothal gifts”.
Online reactions to the state-sponsored matchmaking service have been mixed. Many commenters on Weibo linked it to the government’s push to boost China’s rapidly falling birthrate. Chinese people are expected to “breed like pigs”, wrote one user.
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The app is known as “Palm Guixi” and includes a platform for organising blind dates
That's clever- get people in front of each other instead of swiping a fucking screen
A reminder that the population crisis isn’t limited to “the same map every time” countries. Everyone’s going to have to deal with the double jeopardy of falling birth rates and aging populations. Africa not withstanding as the region with the youngest population on average
The only thing truly at risk is the infinite economic growth of capitalism. We shouldn't have trouble meeting the needs of the elderly population with our current level of technology.
Of course, the needs of capital can have a way of affecting ordinary life, but that's not really a new phenomenon.Technology isn't the issue. Technicians are the issue. All the machines in the world are of no use when you have nobody to operate and maintain them.
A market economy that undervalues physical and mechanical labor at the expense of marketing, legal, and finance sectors in the midst of a decline in young laborers will produce a society that is only capable of bickering over who owns the ashes.
Of course but that’s like saying climate change isn’t an issue because we can adapt to the i coming crises with socialism. Sure but that’s not where we’re at. Having an population overhang of retirees puts extra productive burden on the younger workforce. The fact that China’s pursuing a state project of getting people hitched here tells us that they’re taking this issue seriously and trying to address it, at least in part, with social engineering
I'm so excited to see how this turns out. I've long held the belief that this is the kind of program that would be amazing without profit motive.
The state noticing a decline in community/partnership and taking steps to address it? Could never be the US
I mean, the US does have a plan to address declining birthrates. We're going to implement a Forced Breeding Program of all genetically superior specimens in order to create a new master race that will rule the world for the next thousand years. We're just going to implement this program as part of a for-profit private enterprise administered by the folks at Match.com
