Foreign Media Expose High-Bride-Price Flash-Marriage Scams Trapping Single Men in China, Including Guizhou

On August 11, 2026, foreign media reported that against the backdrop of China's gender imbalance of tens of millions, matchmaking agencies in Guiyang and elsewhere lure older single men into paying hundreds of thousands of yuan in high bride prices under the guise of flash marriages before absconding, and that judicial authorities have already held over 1,500 people accountable.