MORE than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported, citing a study that blamed sex-specific abortions as a major factor.

China performs about 13 million abortions every year, mostly for single young women who experts say know little about contraception, state media said today in a rare disclosure of sensitive family planning statistics.

CHINA’S top family planning agency has cracked down on crude and insensitive slogans used by rural authorities to enforce the country’s strict population limits, state media said yesterday.

China’s one-child policy has created a generation of only children that now number 900 million, but most Chinese would still like to have two children if they could, a senior family planning official said today.