China’s biggest matchmaking website, the century love, launched a ‘love-finding’ fair, attracting more than 4,000 singles in Beijing.

The huge dating event was arranged just like a recruitment fair for job hunters, where there were ‘employers’ and potential ‘employees’, who bring with their ‘resumes’ just like job hunters. Both ‘employers’ and ‘employees’ were charged RMB100 for attending the fair.

A Beijing girl at the fair, said, ‘I have never expected to join in such a creative dating, and it is so interesting…I expect to find my future husband through face-to-face interview.’

It was the first time that the century love website had held such an event.
The century love (shijijiayuan in Chinese) website was established by a university student in 2003. It quickly developed into a famous date arranging website nationwide, targeting people with a higher education background. It has 12 million registered members and has helped two million singles find their spouses.

A survey conducted by China Computer world magazine in 2006 shows that people with high education background and good salary tend to depend more on website services to find their partners.

Young singles make up 46% of China’s total population, according to China Youth and Child Research Center and the population and development research center of the Renmin University of China. Add to this the fact that 2008 is thought by many singles as a very lucky year to find their partners.
Source: China View