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... the ... we may find themselves unlucky in love to explain why and changed by a reporter to Pay ten ... Cate thing in ... your story one out of five when in in Hong Kong can expect to remain single for the rest of their lives that's a depressing one said ... yep I've ... there's something findings of from cities demographers but if you look at the population projections and the numbers today ... of these sex should look on these very very skews about the number of woman Bartz Says member of men ... in town have if you look the numbers at the moment of for every thousand won their only eight hundred and seventy six men ... in Hong Kong's he can see that ratios quite lopsided ... um and if you look of future government projections that is slated to get quite a bit worse with ... and the number actually dropped a member of men ... topping the seven inch and twelve men for every thousand and five twenty forty one ... is is this just a liberal are all the men fourteen Hong Kong for particular reason or what why AB such a discrepancy that the number of reasons but one of the big ones is that the city import a lot of domestic labor ... ideas about three hundred thousand copper's domestic copper is coming from was the Philippines ... and Indonesia and they're overwhelmingly in the second show that a lot to this sort of distortion every scene ... Allen as value increase we have seen a lot of men from Hong Kong ... marrying woman across the border mail in China and bring them back on the many ways meaning woman are seen as people apply and ... set of of Western maintenance and so is in the Hong Kong counterparts and I guess in mainland China there's there's more men are right then a week so I'm ... it is a site that a trade off there but so ... I actually like this could be good business for things like dating agencies and names and what are we seeing what's the effect rate now yes levered is there's been ... a pretty robust industry that sprung up around the sex of reassurance skew advance ... of among them there is ... of some agencies that are really trying hard to match make a Hong Kong woman with men overseas ... and even arranging trips unit to cities like a layered your think a noble Friday when ... was the campus of the bachelors and I'm hoping that the make something of that ... um you often see dating agencies that encouraging long-distance free speech it's a Hong Kong one you can find love but above the speed ... of the season and somehow you make of work to sell all sorts of ... creative of ... enterprise as I'm including three dimensional because Hong Kong's ... sex or show is so much skewed towards women and on mainland China severance where there's more men ... um we've we've actually seen the development of some speed dating events that trying to connect to the Hong Kong one in ... which meaning that each week lot of them is in the Hong Kong government really worried about this is this a concern ... it's only as especially if you think about ... the challenges that come with trying to support you no massive ... single and aging population and that something that the government's going after taking into account may consider ... housing and education ... I'm answering all sorts of support measures for the preparation especially on net of medical care as well and then that something that the government has argued that disgusting and especially since the gap is as you pointed out only getting wider ... okay thanks Fran that's taking ten ... for that star am more indebted Des beest dot com I'm Deborah con for The Wall Street Journal digital network ... ay ay ay Leung ...