On October 20, Gelonghui released data on sex ratios by birth order for 31 provinces (municipalities) based on the 2020 China Census Yearbook: nationally, the sex ratio for first births was 113.17, for second births 106.78, and for third births it rose to 132.93, with Hubei's third-birth sex ratio reaching as high as 177.42, Anhui at 165.95, and Fujian at 164.49.
The "2026 China Pet Industry White Paper" reveals that the number of dog and cat pets in China's urban areas has reached about 126 million, with nearly 80 million pet owners, and people born in the 1990s and 2000s accounting for nearly 70%.
The 2020 seventh national census showed that China's newborn sex ratio has remained imbalanced since 1990, reaching 121 to 100 in 2004, with 34.9 million more men than women nationwide, of whom marriage-age men aged 20 to 40 outnumber women by 17 million.
In 2013, Zhejiang lawyer Wu Youshui applied for information disclosure, revealing that China's total fines for exceeding birth quotas in 2012 amounted to about 30 billion yuan; scholars estimate that over more than 30 years of enforcing the one-child policy, total fines reached 1.5 to 2 trillion yuan, and local governments have never disclosed where the money went.