Chinese Marriage Market

This is the article which I read this week.

 Many Chinese parents are looking for their child’s or even relative’s future partner at the market in Shanghai. Because of one-child policy, many Chinese do not have the experience to meet the opposite-sex, and their parents are desperate not to cut the family’s line.

 This is very interesting. I believe it will never happen in Japan. The way of finding a future partner has been changing in many countries. In Japan, match-making party, especially Machi-kon, is now very popular among young people. What is wrong with China? Parents post their child profile on a board and try to find preferable wife or husband for their child, which is a stupid idea to me. Japan used to have a system called Omiai. It is still worked among some, but it has been becoming an old-fashion. For me it is our rights to choose who we are going to marry with.

Anyway, such an unusual activity is in China. This is because of one-child policy, which created a difficult society for both men and women to get married. Surprisingly, the number of women who are looking for the partner is larger than that of men, which is opposite with the population composition in Chinese society. These unexpected results let me worried about the future progress of China.

1 Do you want your parents to choose your future partner? Why or Why not?

2 Which element is the most important for you? The way of look, income, age, education, or personality? (These are the list of a post in Chinese marriage market.)