The authorities in southern China have accused two men of spreading false information that single men would be awarded foreign brides as part of a government poverty alleviation plan.
The two filmed themselves telling people that the government would be distributing “beautiful” Russian and Japanese women as wives to men in Guizhou, China’s poorest province, with a birth ratio over 120 men for every 100 women – one of the worst gender imbalances in the country.
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