Chinese men turn to human traffickers for foreign brides

But actual gender imbalance from scrapped one-child policy questioned

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A Chinese couple pauses for wedding photo.

HIROSHI MURAYAMA, Nikkei senior staff writer

TOKYO -- China has a problem with men, as in too many compared to the number of women. And according to an in-depth study authored by the China Population Association and others, this problem is likely to get far worse over the next 30 years as the number of surplus males grows by 30 million.

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