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Reggie finishes his time in Chengdu with a visit to the marriage market in People’s Park, one of many such gatherings that across the country that now exist for parents to 'advertise' their sons and daughters as future marriage material. This phenomenon has become increasingly prevalent in the wake of the one-child policy and the preference for sons, which has now left China with an estimated 34 million more men than women.

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