Most of them marry people in the rural areas and need to work on farms. Photo: CFP Children become their priority after these women come to China. Photo: CFP A woman sits with her family. She married her Chinese husband five years ago. Photo: CFP A Vietnamese woman works at a factory. Most of them don't have a hukou and cannot legally work. Photo: CFP Vietnamese bride stands in front of her house wearing traditional clothes in Yanxi Men's Women's Ultra Boost Core Black UK Adidas Running Shoes , Fujian Province. Photo: CFP Forty-six-year-old Ye was preparing to go to Vietnam for the fourth to find a wife.
Ye was born mute and deaf and has had five wives. They all left him.
Ye lives in the township of Yanxi, in Fujian Province. Over the past few years, a total of 146 Vietnamese women married into the town.
In all of China, there are more than 100,000 Vietnamese brides. Only half of them have legal marriages. They mostly reside in the countryside, they are usually poor Adidas Ultra Boost Core Black Sale UK Men's Running Shoes , and they rarely have a hukou (household registration).
In 1991, Vietnam and China reestablished diplomatic relations. Many Vietnamese women came into Chinese border towns - some even came in illegally - in hope of a better life. In 2002, professional matchmaking services appeared and are on the rise.
At the same time, Chinese men are willing to marry women from outside the country. According to official population statistics, in 2013, there were 1.2 million more men of marriageable age than women. Most of these men are in the rural areas.
Yang Jinrong Adidas EQT 93 17 UK Sale , the township's publicity bureau director said that most of the locals who marry Vietnamese brides are poor, old or handicapped.