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market forces? ummmm welcome to china.

The particular "market" force being one that the government neither wants to nor is in a particularly good position to oppose, I don't think that is a problem.
In reality, the "market force" must manifest itself in the enhancement of the status of women.

Limited to one child in “a country where daughters are unwanted,” many Chinese families, especially in rural areas, made sure—even by infanticide—that the one child born was a boy.

One possible approach would be an institution of polyandry . . . another would be for the government to relax their one-child policy to a "one boy" policy, which would transform the preferences for the first child; couples could have two or even three children if the first one, and the second, were both girls . . . any inversion in the ratio of girls would lead to the girls marrying older men. In fact, that is baked in the cake right now as a short-term band aid. Girls have not only their same age cohort but the previous one from which to find a husband, and can marry someone with more status, however they define it.
Obviously the "one child" policy, if continued indefinitely, would cause a geometric decline in population.

China “suffers from the world’s most severe brain drain.” Approximately two-thirds of the Chinese who have studied abroad in the past two decades did not return home. The BBC offered many possible explanations for this drain: the lack of opportunities at home; a lack of freedom, especially after Tiananmen Square, and a preference for the Western “lifestyle.”

One factor that was not mentioned but should have been was a concern about spending the rest of your life alone.

. . . and as the above indicates, sex selection only exacerbates that inexorable logic. The "one child" policy must change at some point. It is only a question of when.
Thing is, via the "brain drain" China is exporting good prospective husbands. Maybe it's not so bad that my four grandchildren are all girls . . .
The Constitution was designed to make the US a great place to be. "Malignant Narcissist" governments such as Communist ones make their countries great places to be as far as possible from.