People in Chinese rural areas tend to spend too much money on getting married marriage

(If this is a translation of an article, it is good to include the attribution)

My own translation of an article:

农村"天价"娶妻调查：有人为结婚被迫借高利贷

http://news.163.com/api/14/0330/08/9OIQKNS90001124J.html

In order to get a bride, some families may need to spend as much as 500 thousand Yuan (about 80 thousand US dollars). Which This is a very great amount/deal of money, because the average income of a rural family is no more than 30 thousand Yuan per year (so it is equivalent to 16 years of hard work - too bad if the marriage fails after 2 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). That means most family have to borrow money to complete a marriage.

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There are quite a few reasons for this situation. China has a notorious one-child policy (not in the countryside???) , which leads to sex-selection abortions due to a strong preference for having at least one boy/male child. As a consequence, the ration ratio of between boys and to (remember what a 'ratio' is) girls are is becoming increasingly unbalanced. In a other words, the supply is bigger than the demand (other way around - 'demand exceeds supply') from the males point of view. In addition, girls are can easily to enter cities by marrying young city males men living in cities. But this is not the case for males because of high house price. Actually, it is more and more difficult for a man to settle down in the city cities. In a summary, young males people can not get a mate easily. Therefore they must spend more.

Unlike Western societies (where people live independently until they have got get married),  . So earning money and preparation for young people’s marriage are is usually the business of an the entire family. In fact, this may be the main purpose/goal of a family. They have to work hard for many years through their life just to get find a girl for their son.

From an article by Kevin Lee in Forbes magazine:

China's Growing Problem Of Too Many Single Men

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China will face a growing number of young men who will never marry due to the country’s one-child policy, which has resulted in a reported birth ratio of almost 120 boys for every 100 girls…By 2030, projections suggest that more than 25% of Chinese men in their late 30s will never have married. The coming marriage squeeze will likely be even more acute in the Chinese countryside, since the poor, uneducated and rural population will be more likely to lose out in the competition for brides.”

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People in Chinese rural areas tend to spend too much money on marriage

In order to get a bride, some families may need to spend as much as 500 thousand Yuan (about 80 thousand US dollars). Which This is a very great amount of money, because the average income of a rural family is no more than 30 thousand Yuan per year. That means most families have to borrow money to complete a marriage.
There are quite a few reasons for this situation. China has a notorious one-child policy, which leads to sex-selective abortions due to a strong preference for having at least one boy. As a consequence, the ration ratio ("ration" is a different word altogether) between boys and girls are is ("is," to agree with the subject "ratio") becoming increasingly unbalanced. In a words Basically, the supply is bigger than the demand, from the males' point of view. In addition, it is easy for girls are easy to enter cities to move to cities by marring young men living in cities. But this is not the case for males because of high house prices. Actually, it is more and more difficult for a man to settle down in cities. In summary a summery, young males people can not get a mate easily. Therefore they must spend more.
Unlike Western societies, people live independently until they have got married. Unlike Western societies, young people in China usually live with their families until they marry. (Is this what you meant?) So earning money and preparation for young people’s a young person's marriage are is usually a the business of an entire family. In fact, this may be the main purpose of a family. They have to work hard for many years through their life to get a girl.

That is pretty crazy. You were very lucky!

People in rural Chinese (This rule is kinda tricky, so go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective#Adjective_order for an explanation of why we say rural Chinese and not Chinese rural) areas tend to spend too much money on marriage

In order to get a bride, some families may need to spend as much as 500 thousand Yuan(about 80 thousand US dollars), which is a very great amount of money, because the average income of a rural family is no more than 30 thousand Yuan per year. That means most families have to borrow money to complete a marriage.
There are quite a few reasons for this situation, including China has a notorious one-child policy, which leads to sex-selective abortions due to a strong preference for having at least one boy. As a consequence, the ratio between boys and girls is becoming increasingly unbalanced. In other words, the supply is bigger than demand from the male's point of view. In addition, for girls, it is easy to enter cities by marring young men living in cities. But this is not the case for men because of high house price. Actually, it is more and more difficult for a man to settle down in cities. In a summery, young men can not get a mate easily. Therefore they must spend more to marry.
Unlike western societies, people live independently until they get married. So earning money and preparing for young people’s marriage are usually a business of an entire family. In fact, this may be the main purpose of a family. They have to work hard for many years through their life to get a girl.