Wu Deyi (Left), 48, who never married because of poverty，rests with his fellow villagers in a village in Heibei, China.

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Wu Deyi (Left), 48, who never married because of poverty，rests with his fellow villagers in Dongxingpu village, DiaoE town, Chicheng conty, Hebei province, China. Many marriageable men are unable to get married due to poverty, sickness and the skewed sex ratio in villages like Dongxingpu. People call such villages as "Bachelor villages" in rural China. 22-Nov-2014 (Original reportage for Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet.)

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Size: 7360px × 4912px
Location: Dongxingpu DiaoE town Chicheng Hebei China
Photo credit: © Lou Linwei / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: bachelor, birth, blame, child, china, chinese, control, female, imbalance, male, man, men, policy, population, poverty, proportion, ratio, sex, skewed, unbalance, villages