Who will win China's war on women? 33 million more men than women in China

China's ongoing issue with a growing population and a disparity in the numbers between each gender is only getting worse; as 2014 there were 33 million more men in China than women.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - China's longstanding family restrictions and unofficial, though encouraged, practice of selectively aborting and abandoning female newborns is drawing criticisms throughout the world again.

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As of the start of 2015, China has a population of 1.36 billion people, and 700 million of these inhabitants are men, while only 667 million are women.

China's official state-run news agency, Xinhua, reported that the birth ration between boys and girls is 115.88 boys to every 100 girls, while in the rest of the world sits at an average of about 107 boys to every 100 girls.

Back in 2004, China's gender ration rose above the global average of 107 boys, hitting a high of 121.18. While a decade of Beijing carefully cultivating a limit on birth in the country and occasionally attempting to stop female infanticide has lowered the disparity, it has not eliminated it.

China's National Health and Family Planning Commission issued a statement on its website on January 21, where it warned that the boy to girl ratio is still higher than in any other country.

"The gender imbalance in [China] is the most serious in the world, and has lasted for the longest period of time and affected the largest number of people," the statement said.

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The Commission also reported that the government is intending to crack down harder on families who send fetal blood samples abroad for gender testing. China already bans the practice within China, but families often send samples to companies abroad to circumvent the law.

Businesses that transport these blood samples overseas also are going to be punished. Beijing has reminded medical staff that carrying, mailing, or transporting these blood samples to other nations is highly illegal.

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