The Price Of Marriage In China

[interestrateripoff]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/business/in-a-changing-china-new-matchmaking-markets.html?ref=business&_r=0

FROM her stakeout near the entrance of an H & M store in Joy City, a Beijing shopping mall, Yang Jing seemed lost in thought, twirling a strand of her auburn-tinted hair, tapping her nails on an aquamarine iPhone 4S. But her eyes kept moving. They tracked the clusters of young women zigzagging from Zara to Calvin Klein Jeans. They lingered on a face, a gesture, and then moved on, darting across the atrium, searching.

“This is a good place to hunt,” she told me. “I always have good luck here.”

For Ms. Yang, Joy City is not so much a consumer mecca as an urban Serengeti that she prowls for potential wives for some of China’s richest bachelors. Ms. Yang, 28, is one of China’s premier love hunters, a new breed of matchmaker that has proliferated in the country’s economic boom. The company she works for, Diamond Love and Marriage, caters to China’s nouveaux riches: men, and occasionally women, willing to pay tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars to outsource the search for their ideal spouse.

In Joy City, Ms. Yang gave instructions to her eight-scout team, one of six squads the company was deploying in three cities for one Shanghai millionaire. This client had provided a list of requirements for his future wife, including her age (22 to 26), skin color (“white as porcelain”) and sexual history (yes, a virgin).

“These millionaires are very picky, you know?” Ms. Yang said. “Nobody can ever be perfect enough.” Still, the potential reward for Ms. Yang is huge: The love hunter who finds the client’s eventual choice will receive a bonus of more than $30,000, around five times the average annual salary in this line of work.

With a population of 1.3bn I suppose you've got to start getting creative in finding work. And this is clearly high on the non-job list and really shows you have money to waste hiring someone to find you "love".

[Damik]

http://www.nytimes.c...f=business&_r=0

With a population of 1.3bn I suppose you've got to start getting creative in finding work. And this is clearly high on the non-job list and really shows you have money to waste hiring someone to find you "love".

hmm, a virgin 22/26 years old; must be something wrong with her if she is still a virgin ... ????

even an ugly one can have a boyfriend when 16 or 17 ...

[interestrateripoff]

hmm, a virgin 22/26 years old; must be something wrong with her if she is still a virgin ... ????

even an ugly one can have a boyfriend when 16 or 17 ...

He wants a good looking liar.

[dinker]

Even the hookers make British girls look like skanks:

[Tankus]

.''' By the end of this decade, Chinese researchers estimate, the country will have a surplus of 24 million unmarried men.''

Social pressure or what?

[happy_renting]

.''' By the end of this decade, Chinese researchers estimate, the country will have a surplus of 24 million unmarried men.''

Social pressure or what?

A war will soon fix that.

[Dorkins]

.''' By the end of this decade, Chinese researchers estimate, the country will have a surplus of 24 million unmarried men.''

Social pressure or what?

Doesn't seem too bad in a country of 1.3 billion people. Scaled for the UK population that would be 1.1 million unmarried men. I'm sure there are more than a million unmarried men in the UK.