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Summary

A disturbing situation is facing China where one woman commits suicide every four minutes. As estimated 150,000 women commit suicide every year and the majority of them do so in rural areas due to the availability of poisons in their areas. Xu Rong, head of the suicide prevention project is looking after such situations. More than 70% of suicides are caused by arranged marriage where women are forced to marry. Divorce is an excluded solution for them because it affects the financial security of the family so they attempt suicide in order to escape from their hard circumstances and to reflect their distressing feelings for people. As a result, the number of women will decrease gradually in China and there will be not enough women to men ratio that will lead to abduction and prostitution. Xu Rong is determining the future of China’s women by arranging courses such as cooking, marriage laws and other personal life experiences to provide them with self-confidence.

Main Idea

The article is drawing the attention to suicide attempts by Chinese women. An approximate number of 150,000 Chinese women commit suicide every year mostly in rural areas due to bad marriage environment and lack of learning so they decide to commit suicide in order to gain some dignity and to reflect their sense of anger.

Opinion

In my point of view, women nowadays are holding important positions world wide and achieving goals which a minority of men could achieve. I am sorry to hear that the world is losing 150,000 women due to distressful life situations. If China solves this problem and provides jobs for those young women, the economy will be improved as well as life experience for those women.