Is son preference still serious now?

Relatively speaking, it's not that serious.

For the phenomenon of son preference in hometown, 53.9% of the respondents think it is lighter than before, 32.7% think it is the same, and only 6.2% think it is more serious than before.

Francisco Jailson de Souza (pseudonym) comes from Weinan City, Shaanxi Province. She has lived in the city since she was a child. Even if she has a younger brother at home, she never feels looked down upon. Her roommate comes from the countryside of Pingliang City, Gansu Province, and her feelings are completely different. "The phenomenon of son preference in her hometown is serious, and men have a particularly high status at home.

Even in the county, if the woman is pregnant, most of them will first check the sex of the child through B-ultrasound and find that the girl is likely to have a miscarriage. Now that the second child is released, they are also very concerned about the gender of the second child. "

Francisco Jailson de Souza heard from her roommates that in some places, families without boys would feel humiliated, and girls could not even write down their genealogy. "Young people who get married and have children abroad will be asked by relatives whether their children are boys or not when they go home for the New Year, which is very stressful."

Cross-analysis shows that, compared with cities, the concept of son preference is the most weakened in rural areas, and 66.3% of respondents from rural areas feel that the concept of son preference has become lighter, but overall it is still not optimistic.

The proportion that son preference is still serious is: rural areas (44.4%), counties/towns/county-level cities (48.7%), prefecture-level cities/cities with separate plans (39.8%), provincial capitals (36. 1%) and municipalities directly under the central government (26.8%).

A cross-sectional analysis of the distribution of preference for boys over girls in China shows that the northeast (53.8%) and north China (44.3%) are the most serious, followed by northwest (43. 1%) and south China (4 1.3%), east China (34.6%) and central China (34.655).

Lu Jiehua, a professor at Peking University Population Research Institute, said that in Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Shaanxi, Fujian, Zhejiang and other provinces, son preference is still serious. In contrast, there are more immigrants in Northeast China. "