In just six years, the number of Chinese people getting married for the first time fell by a crushing 41%, from 23.8 million in 2013 to 13.9 million in 2019, according to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics.

In 2019, China's marriage rate fell for the sixth consecutive year to 6.6 per 1,000, down 33% from 2013, the lowest rate in 14 years, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Demographers have been warning of an impending demographic crisis for years. In 2014, the country's working-age population began to decline for the first time in more than three decades, alarming Chinese leaders.

Several years ago, the Chinese government announced it would end the one-child policy, allowing couples to have two children. The law came into force on January 1, 2016, but the birth rate and marriage rates still declined. Between 2016 and 2019, the birth rate fell from 13 per 1,000 to 10 - a trend.

Statistics show that both sexes postpone marriage. From 1990 to 2016, the average age at first marriage rose from 22 to 25 for Chinese women and from 24 to 27 for Chinese men, according to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

In big cities, the numbers are even higher. For example, in Shanghai in 2015, the average age at first marriage was 30 for men and 28 for women.

For many Chinese families, buying a home is a prerequisite for getting married. But many young couples simply don’t have the money to pay for expensive real estate, and not every parent has enough savings to help.

For example, owning a home next to a good school provides access to high quality education for their children, and wealthy couples are often willing to pay a high price for these desirable circumstances.

In the wake of the impending demographic crisis, the Chinese government has launched propaganda campaigns encouraging married couples to have children. State media taught married couples that having a child is "not only a family affair, but also a state one." In cities and villages, propaganda slogans appeared calling for the birth of a second child, replacing the old ones, threatening severe punishment for violating the "one child" policy.

Following the policy of two children, provincial governments extended maternity leave beyond the national standard of 98 days, with the highest reaching 190 days. Some cities have also begun to provide cash subsidies to couples having a second child.

In 2019, several delegates to the National People's Congress, China's legislature, has proposed lowering the minimum age of marriage to 18 for both sexes from 22 for men and 20 for women in order to encourage young couples to marry earlier and have more children.

Meanwhile, the Communist Youth League, a branch of the CCP, has taken on the task of matchmaking, conducting blind mass events to help single people find life partners. The authorities not only encourage young people to get married, but also try to keep married couples together.

Last year, China's National Legislature introduced a 30-day "cooling off" period for people filing for divorce, which took effect this year.

Idealism and opportunism - main qualities of Chinese Communist Party, and they could lead to staggering failure.

In reality China needs to rise salaries quite a lot and it will lead to significant rise of Chinese goods prices, so everyone is afraid and think that you can solve real materialistic issue using idealistic pointless propaganda.