China’s super-rich look for love online

[Paul Todd]

Beijing, In China it can be hard for millionaires to find love. Just ask Xu Tianli.

“These people are very excellent themselves, which leads to their high standards for partners,” Xu said. “And those who can meet those standards are few.”Xu is the founder of Golden Bachelor, an online dating site catering to an expanding class of super-wealthy Chinese singletons who have it all except for one thing: a bride.So they pay, a lot, to find one. The Golden Bachelor “Diamond Love” membership goes for 300,000 Yuan ($44,000).

The Web site states in Chinese the qualifications for joining: a personal or family wealth of at least 2 million yuan ($292,000); a background that is extremely superior, wealthy and aristocratic; very good personal qualities or young, talented and beautiful. “More and more Chinese people are finding love from Web sites,” said Xu, 36. “The difference between us from other dating sites is we only focus on high-level clients — those with a high social status or superior physical condition. We don’t focus on the mass general public.”

Golden Bachelor employs psychologists and special matchmaking consultants to personally assist multi-millionaires in their pursuit of romance. In China men at the bottom of the social hierarchy are going to have very few chances to meet women.
And then there also are the so-called “love hunters” — staff who travel around the country in search of China’s most beautiful bachelorettes to bring to the lavish matchmaking parties the company throws.

The last one was on December 20 in Beijing in a luxury hotel. The ticket price was 100,000 yuan, ($14,600); 21 single women and 22 single men attended. Ladies took part in a wedding gown show and also sang, danced, even cooked for their moneyed suitors during a talent program. Eighty percent of those who came found a date, according to the company.Rapid urbanization is eroding more traditional ways of finding partners through relatives and friends and is pressing young people to seek out new avenues for romance. In a society that is increasingly living life on the Internet, online services are poised to capitalize on the looming scarcity of love matches.

The matchmakers advise men and women on how to tweak their profiles, what to wear to dinner, even how to fix their hair based on a large database of empirical evidence collected from members who were — and were not — asked out on a second date.“For example, we find most men like women who wear black pantyhose,” Song said. “It is overwhelming. So we tell them you don’t have to do that, but these are the statistics.”It is sort of like buying an apartment,  “You can do it one of two ways. You look in the classified sections of the newspapers or you hire a real estate agent and then they will spend time fixing things for you. We are like the brokers.”


Here's a link to the site
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.915915.com.cn%2F&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8

The first one to snag one of these girls buy's the beers!

[Crystal Tao]

Here is another article taken from http://www.wayangtimes.com/ in continuation of this topic:

More than 7,000 women from all over the country are applying for one of just 40 tickets to attend China’s version of Cinderella’s ball, where several multi-millionaires will pay around $5,400 for the privilege of meeting them, the organizer of the event told Reuters.

“It’s not just about the women finding their Prince Charming, but also the men finding their princess,” said Cheng Yongsheng of the organizers, matchmaking website JiaYuan.

“There are more and more single women in China nowadays who just want to find a good man. And if this man has money, that’s much better.”

This modern-day ball will take place on November 21 and 22, and include a lavish banquet, ball, accommodation at a luxury 5-star hotel and a cruise.

The organizers are also seeking 40 single males who are worth more than 50 million yuan (more than $7 million) each, but Cheng said only 10 had applied so far.

As for the women, they will be stringently screened for their looks, physique and intellect, with marriage counselors on hand to judge whether they are “kind, gentle and tasteful,” Cheng was quoted by the official Xinhua news agency as saying.

“Girls must be outstanding in many aspects such as appearance, figure and academic performance,” he added.

The website held a similar event last year which attracted 4,000 women but resulted in one successful match, Cheng said.

“Ten more couples are dating after the previous event. Rich men, because of their busy work and strict requirements for dating girls, find it hard to meet their Cinderellas,” he added.

China now has more known dollar billionaires than any other country outside the United States, according to a recent report.

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Crystal,

actually the number of billionaires in the top  countries are as follows and this is according to Forbes now this is based on true
and actual 1 billion dollars   china isnt in there because their billionaires are in rmb which is just a little more than 1/2 a billion dollars
in actual comparison to dollars. but still a good peice of money to have around

1-  usa 269
2-  japan  29
3- germany  28
4-  italy   17
5-   canada 16
6-  switzerland- 15
7-- france    15
8--- hong kong 15
9  -- mexico     13
10---england   12
11 russia     8
12 saudi arabia  8

only one successful match in the other cinderella ball?? i guess the dowry amount was even to astronomical for even these guys
that the women were asking for 

[Neil]

1,000,000,000 RMB = 147,141,074.03 USD ...much less than 1/2 a billion