On September 15th, the visa exemption between China and Russia officially came into effect. The northeast border immediately became lively, and Russian tourists crowded the Heihe entry hall.
In order to welcome Russian tourists, several shopping malls have started playing Russian-language signals, and even small shops along the road have added Russian translations to their menus.
At the same time, citizens will be easier to travel and work in Russia.
But the Russian female lawmaker Yulova raised a question, that after visa-free China-Russia, there may be a lot of Chinese men, in order to avoid the pain of high prizes, ran to Russia to find their daughter-in-law.
So what if this happened, what would the Chinese girls do?
This year’s “Mother’s Wife.”
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, By 2024, there will be 34.9 million more men than women in Russia, more than a fifth of the total population.
Among these more than 30 million people, there are 17.52 million more marriageable men aged 20 to 40 than women of the same age group, and the ratio of male to female reaches 108.9: 100.
More specifically, 38.87% of 30-year-old men were “playing tricks”, compared to only 20.16% of women of their own age who were single. There are tens of millions of Chinese men who can't find a partner.
On the other hand, the statistics of the Russian Federal Bureau of Statistics for 2024 show that there are 10 million more women than men in Russia.
In the marriageable age group of 20 to 35, the ratio of male to female is even lower, only 86: 100. If we only look at the Far East, the ratio is even more exaggerated, as low as 70: 100.
There are 18 million Russian girls in the age of marriage, and 30% of them say it is difficult to find a suitable partner in mainland Russia.
In this way, in China and Russia, there are more men than women, and more women than men, so transnational marriage has naturally become a coincident choice.As early as 2015, transnational marriages between China and Russia were growing at a rate of almost 20% per year, and by 2024 the total number of registrations had surpassed 3,2 thousand pairs, with an average of one new couple registered per hour. There are more than 2,000 Chinese-Russian transnational marriages registered in one city, of which 85% are Russian women married to Chinese men.
After the visa-free visa between China and Russia, it only takes five minutes to get to Russia on the other side by boat from Heihe River, and the toll is also very cheap. One trip only takes 80 yuan, which makes going abroad a "visit". And a survey of dating websites shows that, 42% of Russian women aged 25 to 35 are willing to engage with Chinese men.
But although the idea is good, in fact, it is still unrealistic to expect visa-free mass intermarriage.
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First of all, the difficulty is that languages are different. Harbin University of Science and Technology once investigated, It is found that less than 30% of Chinese and Russian multinational couples can speak each other's language fluently.
In reality, more than half of Chinese and Russian couples will have misunderstandings and contradictions because of different languages. 40% of Chinese and Russian couples even admit directly When they argue with each other, they must raise their mobile phones while translating and messing, and the content of the quarrel translates smoothly, the more loud people are the bigger.
This is true between husband and wife, let alone when they are strangers. In the first month after the implementation of the visa-free policy, there were 15% more foreign-related cases in border cities, most of which were caused by language barriers.
And even if you can go through the language, the differences in culture and lifestyle are even more difficult to grasp. When it comes to eating, Russian women have the habit of eating black bread with yogurt, while Chinese husbands prefer soybeans and soybeans. You can’t eat in a pot, let alone a day.
Even with each step back on the meal, the physical differences brought about by genes also cause great trouble for both sides.
According to the data of the sub-journal of Nature Genetics, the mutation rate of ABCC11 gene in East Asians is 95%, and the body odor is extremely light. And Europe only 10%-15%, which leads to their body smell extremely strong, even if the use of large amounts of antiperspirants to reduce the taste, can directly smoke a large number of Chinese.
Even if the nose goes together, the difference in consumption ideas is difficult to accept. Russian women are mostly "moonlight" people, buying packages and buying clothes and so on, spending the first half of the month's salary does not hurt, and this in the eyes of Chinese men is the right "lose".
In Russia, women talk about love first to look at the man's intelligence, and then see if he is humorous, whether the emotion is unique, the material aspects of things such as car and gifts are in the last place. Chinese men's tried-and-true material means such as "giving gifts, giving red envelopes and inviting them to dinner" after girls will make most Russian women feel "naive and boring".
Looking at this is really difficult, then we now assume that there is a Chinese man with a good knowledge of Russian, can take cream bread as the main food, the nose can not smell the taste, can accept the "Moonlight" thought, feelings unique and understand humor, and a Chinese man with a good knowledge of Chinese, like Chinese food, just the body without taste, like to save money not "Moonlight", can take the childish behavior of men as "interesting" Russian woman, The two look right in the eye and decide to cheat for marriage, then can they go smoothly together?
Nor can it be, after all, transnational marriage, where the national conditions of the two countries, the complexity of the procedure is hopefully reversible.
If both parties enter into a marriage procedure, From the Chinese side, it is now necessary to handle the Russian translation of identity cards, account books, passports and foreign public documents at home, which costs approximately 1,200 yuan.If you are divorced, you have to add another notarization procedure for divorce documents. Then these notarial certificates have to be certified by both the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Consulate. They are not free, and each notarial certificate costs about 500 yuan.
In China it is done, in Russia, these documents certificates have to be translated by the local public certificate office, even the passport cover must be translated separately.
Moreover, the differences in the laws and regulations of the two countries also make transnational marriage hidden risks.
Russian law stipulates that the marriage age is 18 years old for men and 16 years old for women, which is earlier than the legal age in China; In terms of property division, Russia emphasizes that the property of both sides "belongs to each other", while China prefers "unified management".
It is this difference in underlying logic that makes When transnational marriage is faced with legal disputes, whether it is the division of property, the claim of rights or the definition of responsibilities, it requires repeated coordination between two different legal systems and values, which greatly increases the difficulty of handling cases.
In addition to these real obstacles, we should also consider whether it is a real idea for young people from both China and Russia to take the opportunity of visa-free to find a foreign target.
From the actual situation of the movement of people, most of them are travelling across the border trade and tourism.From January to August this year, more than 65,000 people flew their flights to China, a third more than in the same period last year, most of whom were tourists and business people. The Russian ITM travel company also predicts that the visa-free policy will make China the top five most popular foreign travel destinations for Russians, with tourist demand rising by more than 30%.
In fact, the core of the visa-free policy has never been to promote transnational marriages, but to make normal personnel exchanges more convenient. There are only a few thousand transnational marriages between China and Russia every year at most, accounting for a small proportion in the huge communication base. Nowadays, people on both sides of the Jiejiang River come more to travel, do business and watch movies. This all-round win-win cooperation is the real value of the visa-free policy.
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