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There's a lot of crazy things in China that are related to this. Not just one child policy. There's a whole crisis of sexuality in China.
Well there aren't enough women because men are obsessed with family lines. Having one child. A male child was the preference, and in China older women are undesirable so I can see why there is a problem.
That keeps getting cited in western media, but it's really not the case. The obsession with bloodlines is true; however it is illegal here (I live in China, my wife is Chinese) to reveal the gender prior to birth; and punished severely. It's still possible to find a doctor and bribe them, however the risk is so high that not many are able to pay up. I've heard numbers of up to 30k USD (!) going around (and that's in today's money), which is easily 2-3x the annual salary of a local worker.
So while the top ~10% or something could have afforded it, it was in fact much easier to just have a second kid and just hide it with some relatives in a village who'd pretend it was theirs. All the good it did to enforce the one child policy was to have a ton of unaccounted offspring running around in the countryside.
Current statistics show that 48.99% of Chinese are female vs. 51.01% male, while the global statistic is 50.49% male vs. 49.51% female. (That's the global figure including China, so it's a bit distorted, but not by a huge margin).
TL;DR: While there are a bit fewer women in China than the global average, it's not really a relevant concern.
Interesting.