Most Chinese confident of finding their perfect match
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Almost two-thirds of Chinese believe they will find true love, according to a report from the nation's biggest online dating company.
China's first report examining people's attitudes to love was released on May 3 by Shiji Jiayuan, China's largest matchmaker, and showed that 63 percent of the 10,647 interviewees, who came from all of China's municipalities and provinces, were optimistic about finding true love, the Shanghai-based Oriental Morning Post reported on Tuesday.
People from Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province are the most confident while more anxious Beijingers are putting the greatest amount of effort into searching for their perfect match, the survey found.
Attitudes toward love and the ability to maintain a relationship were evaluated using a "love index," which included eight elements such as their confidence in finding love, the ways in which they looked for a mate and the effect of warmer weather on their dating activity.
"Although society is full of temptation, the 63 percent figure shows that most of the people still are positive about relationships," said Shiji Jiayuan CEO Gong Haiyan.
But that figure would reach 80 percent in a truly confident society, said Zhang Yiyun, who holds a PhD of psychology study from the Georgia Institute of Psychology in the US.
"Such percentage corresponds to the current social situation, which shows that people lacks confidence. But I hope the percentage can rise above 80 percent, which is a healthy situation. In such society, people can truly get happiness," Zhang told the Global Times.
Almost half of the interviewees were aged between 21 and 25 years old and just over a quarter were aged between 26 and 30 years old, Ren Jianan, the marketing director of Shiji Jiayuan, told the Global Times.
