Toby, whatever you do, please do not rely on QQ to find yrself a woman, that is just totally fraught with danger. Anyone who had success with random QQ meetings is extremely, and I mean extremely, lucky. There are all sorts of weirdos, even plenty of criminals, using the site. The Chinese authorities have had no end of problems with it, statistically, it makes Facebook look like a children's soft toy.
I am in the legal profession and have a colleague who is now almost full time working on QQ and Facebook disasters, and QQ is handsomely winning the race.
ChnLove and other sites may have their faults, indeed they do have their faults, but the genuine women are screened, and the scams are monitored. Sure, you may lose your dollars needlessly on credits, or go to China and be spurned, but at least you won't be the victim of identity theft, or far worse.
QQ is a great communication tool, use it to your little hearts content when you have found your lady, but please do NOT use it to meet a potential partner on line. Ou wold to believe how easy it is to steal all sorts of things from you on-line.
As an anecdote, the wife of a friend decided she loved meeting people from all over the world on Facebook, had a wonderful time until she decided to take a flight to see her son in Fiji.mturns out her 285,000 frequent flyer points had somehow become 11,000.... Turned out a guy in Germany she was chatting to had taken the lot. You would be amazed what can be accomplished on-line hehe!! Leave the "friend finding" to young kids with no assets, trust me.....