More than ten wealthy yet single Shanghai ladies will seek their
perfect match amongst the millionaires of Silicon Valley when they
go on a match-making tour of the United States next month.
Shanghai Youth Daily reports a local online dating
website is organizing the tour for lovelorn businesswomen, who need
to cough up 28,512 yuan, around US$3703, for their shot at finding
love in the United States. They also need to prove they have at
least 500,000 yuan in the bank, a good education, a well-paying job
and their own real-estate.
More than 20 local women have signed up for the trip, despite
the rigorous selection criteria. Unfortunately, trip organizer Bai
Naimu said not all of the applicants made the grade. Bai said their
company is looking for quality, not quantity, in the ladies it
signs on for the tour. So it is conducting additional
investigations into all the applicants' financial statements and
abilities.
Bai says the chosen few will attend a matchmaking party with
overseas Chinese men in Silicon Valley and get to see all the
sights along the way.
She promises their partners in Silicon Valley have assembled
lots of eligible bachelors. All the men are from the Chinese
mainland and have found it difficult to meet appropriate partners
in the United States.
Mr. Zhu belongs to an organization for overseas Chinese students
in the Silicon Valley. He says Chinese students are usually
consumed by their studies during their first few years in the US.
After they graduate they find a job, earn a stable income and start
casting around for a good wife. But they find it difficult to meet
women because they work in the male-dominated IT industry.
(CRI March 24, 2007)