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More gay men and lesbian women are getting married here as they try to keep their parents happy without coming out of the closet. That's according to the China Daily newspaper. They say it's a growing trend within China's gay community – particularly in bigger cities like Beijing and Shanghai.

In today's Poll Position we look at a survey carried out on this subject by web portal douban.com. They surveyed 300 members of the gay community and found that 86 percent were thinking about taking part in a fake marriage. The survey also found that more gay men were considering fake marriages, then gay women.

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Official figures from China's civil affairs department show that over 1.7 million couples porced in China in 2009, up more than 10 percent on the previous year. And those figures include only those couples porced by civil affairs departments, meaning those porced in court were not included. That hike is more than the 9 percent increase in the marriage rate, although overall the number of marriages - almost 11 and half million - far exceeded porces.

Still, over the past three years, the year-on-year growth rate of registered porces was higher than the growth rate of registered marriages. And the number of porces in absolute terms has rocketed from just over 500,000 at the beginning of the century to today’s figure of more than three times as much. Given this seemingly unstoppable rise we went out and asked ordinary Chinese people what they think more people are getting porced.

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That's not necessary. Football is something for the pitch. It shouldn't be mixed up with politics. The government can give football teams financial support and lead them to develop in a better way. I think it won't help a bit if our country interferes with the team's training.