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How a Chinese county's plan to fix declining marriages turned into 'operation warm the older men's beds' and sparked a social media firestorm
The government of Xiangyin county in Hunan province wanted to encourage women to stay in their hometowns to marry. It was promoted as "operation warm the older men's beds."
www.insider.com
In Xiangyin County there is a government program that supporters are saying is a vital boon to rural Chinese men who can't find wives. They're hoping it takes hold China-wide.
Now, I know it's China, but they can't actually "force" women to marry who they don't want to marry. Nor can they say "Look at this specific ricecel. Don't marry this specific OTHER guy, marry our specific ricecel." Because how do you decide which man deserves this hypothetical public pussy, hypothetically seized by the government? No, China isn't doing that. Nor is that really the problem China wants to solve.
The problem? Several villages are turning Smurf with several men but not enough women. So families can't form. Why is this happening? Because women are moving away from the rural villages to live better lives in the city. The treatment for this is four-pronged:
1. Create jobs in rural areas, so women/people in general stay in their rural hometowns.
2. A government funded "blind-date" matchmaking service.
3. Maybe people would marry more often if paperwork to start a family was easier.
4. Make simple living "cool" again with an advertising campaign rejecting flashy expensive weddings and embracing ideas of "marriage and childbearing."
Ostensibly not a "Marry these old farmers" program. Legally you couldn't necessarily say the government was forcing anyone to do anything, simply providing economic support in rural China. But Jiang Wenlai, a writer for Red Net, said the quiet part out loud and called this "Operation Warm The Older Men's Beds." And now some people are very angry with Xiangyin County.