{"id":41037,"date":"2022-01-24T16:37:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T07:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/24\/china-generation-z-resisting-marriage-and-babies"},"modified":"2022-01-24T16:37:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T07:37:35","slug":"stop-nagging-why-chinas-young-adults-are-resisting-marriage-and-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41037","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop nagging!\u2019: Why China\u2019s young adults are resisting marriage and babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese women in particular prioritising education and careers, a trend alarming authorities facing \u2018demographic timebomb\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Early in January, China\u2019s state news agency Xinhua posted a video reminding young Chinese men born in the year 2000 that they were eligible to get married. \u201cPost 00s have reached legal marriage age,\u201d it declared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s.weibo.com\/weibo?q=%2300%E5%90%8E%E5%B7%B2%E8%BE%BE%E6%B3%95%E5%AE%9A%E5%A9%9A%E9%BE%84%23\">The hashtag<\/a> swiftly popped up in the top-searched list of Weibo hot topics, but many read it as the government\u2019s attempt to put pressure on them. \u201cWho dares to get married these days? Don\u2019t we need to make money?\u201d one questioned. \u201cStop nagging me!\u201d said another.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/24\/china-generation-z-resisting-marriage-and-babies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese women in particular prioritising education and careers, a trend alarming authorities facing \u2018demographic timebomb\u2019Early in January, China\u2019s state news agency Xinhua posted a video reminding young Chinese men born in the year 2000 that they were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,706,79,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-population","category-society","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41038,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41037\/revisions\/41038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}