More Hong Kong ladies seeking love on the mainland (2)

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More Hong Kong ladies seeking love on the mainland (2)

(People's Daily Online) 08:49, November 22, 2013

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Reasons for the growing popularity of cross border marriage

The first reason is the gender ratio problem in Hong Kong. Statistics show that Hong Kong’s population increased 38 percent to 7.2 million from 1981 to 2012, and the women-to men ratio changed from 1000: 1087 in 1981 to 1000: 869 in 2012. This growing gender ratio gap has stimulated more Hong Kong women to tie the knot with a mainland man.

Cross border marriages are also a sign of closer Hong Kong-mainland ties. 10 or 20 years ago, there were many problems in marriages between people from Hong Kong and the mainland. These included age gaps and a preference on the part of mainland women to marry much older Hong Kong men. Cultural differences and language barriers also remained obstacles between Hong Kong-mainland couples. Social workers were aware that age difference, cultural differences, and language differences had caused many unhappy and unsatisfactory marriages between cross-border partners in past years.

But nowadays, due to the mainland's economic development and more cross-border interactions that have helped bridge the cultural gap, Hong Kong and mainland people have started to understand each other better. Age differences are narrowing and obstacles are disappearing; today, couples demand a marriage based on romance and feelings rather than pragmatism. A Miss. Yuan from Hong Kong said at a mainland matchmaking party "My expectation of my partner is that he should have a good personality and I should have good feelings about him."

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