New Delhi: A farmer, Tian Zhongben in Anji, a county in East China's Zhejiang province, launched a matchmaking website, www.ajidz.com. The site has now become what can be called a ‘match- making supermarket’.
Online matchmaking has become very popular amongst rural singles in China.
The website created by Zhongben features all the personal details of suitors including; whether married, unmarried or divorced. The details also include family property, monthly income and debts.
The Daily Mail had reported that men were considered as ‘goods’ and women as ‘shoppers’.
"The number of single women is much higher than men in the cities, but in the countryside it is the opposite. There are many young women in the countryside looking for marriage, but prefer the big cities. I believe people need to change their attitudes, and I am providing that platform," Zhongben says.
The website has a current membership of more than 100, and about 30 people have found suitable partners in the past two months.
Zhongben hopes that it will become a hit not only with local farmers, but also with those from other provinces interested in settling in Anji where the rural economy is developing.
The website is also looking for more members who are too busy at work to find partners.
The present system requires men to fill in two forms. One requiring details about his assets and the other about his preferences in a woman. Apart from that he has to submit his photograph also.
However, one of the biggest obstacles for them is that many farmers in their 30s do not know how to send their photographs through the Internet, Zhongben said.
“Consequently, I, along with people in charge of women's issues from nearly 250 villages and communities, have to visit them to take their photographs. The good thing is that we have an opportunity to verify the information they provide," Zhongben says.
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