08-05-2025
‘No Marriage, No Children' Is China's Ticking Timebomb
For almost two decades, Abby Gao has been planning weddings in China. She smiles fondly as she recalls once booking 58 luxury cars, including Rolls-Royces and Lamborghinis, for a single motorcade. Or the time she filled a wedding venue with 35,000 roses. She remembers the countless bottles of premium Moutai liquor, retailing for the equivalent of hundreds of dollars each, that she would carefully place at the center of banquet tables.
Today, the 39-year-old has diversified into children's birthdays, forced by plummeting demand for weddings.
