China had a one-child policy for decades. The government put pressure on the public to control the population. In such a situation, families who wanted a boy did not want a girl child. The sex ratio in China deteriorated completely. In the year 2000, there were 121 boys for every 100 girls.
There are a large number of boys in China who want to get married but are unable to find a girl. According to a report, between 2020 and 2050, about 3 to 5 crore men in China will never be able to get married due to the bad sex-ratio.
In such a situation, Chinese citizens are looking for brides in other countries. A large number of Chinese citizens are getting married in poor South Asian countries including Pakistan and Bangladesh, which is called cross border marriage.
An entire network works in these countries to provide brides to Chinese youth. Agents look for families who are willing to marry their daughters to Chinese citizens in return for money. Then the girl is married to a Chinese citizen. The girls are later taken to China. In this process, Chinese citizens pay a lot of money to the agents.
Agents bring girls to China by promising them good jobs, a better life, or marriage, but there they are sold for forced marriage or sexual exploitation. Not only this, agents also snatch the papers of the girls. Many such cases have come to light where these girls are sent to some village in China. There, they are sexually exploited. If the girl tries to escape, the police consider her an illegal immigrant and make her an accused.