1 / 6If you're a young, city-dwelling Chinese woman, there's a close to 50% chance you're planning to never get married. That's according to a new survey of China's young urban population conducted by a wing of China's Communist Youth League.2 / 6The survey polled 2,905 unmarried youths living in Chinese cities between the ages of 18 and 26. It found that 44% of its female respondents did not intend to get married, with a sizeable 25% of the survey's male respondents saying the same.3 / 6As for why these Chinese Gen Z-ers don't want to get hitched, 34.5% of those surveyed cited 'not having the time or energy to get married.' Meanwhile, 60.8% of the Chinese Gen Z-ers polled said they found it 'difficult to find the right person.' 4 / 6Participants mentioned several other reasons for not getting married, including the financial cost of marriage and the economic burden of having children. A third of the respondents also said they did not believe in marriage, and a similar percentage said they had never been in love. 5 / 6These survey results are a bad sign for China, which this year attempted to put in place new policies to ramp up its birth rate. The country reported a 70% drop in its divorce rate in the first quarter of 2021 after it put in place a 'cooling-off' law, which mandated that local authorities wait one month before approving couples' divorces.6 / 6The law was implemented in a bid to boost China's flagging birth rate by discouraging impulsive divorces. This May, China also launched a new three-child policy, lifting its previous ban on having more than two children per couple.The scrapping of the two-child policy was the second time in five years that China made a significant change to its population control guidelines. In 2016, the Chinese government reversed its one-child policy, which was implemented in 1979 to suppress the country's population boom.