On July 2nd, the Guizhou Metropolis News reported the results of a survey conducted in a “bachelors’ village” located in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou. In this village of just over 2,100 people there are more than 290 bachelors and, of the 60 single women over the age of 20, all had left for jobs elsewhere. Republished by a number of Chinese media outlets and websites, the report details how the gender imbalance has resulted in cases of wife-snatching, wife-sharing, and wife-buying: