百宝箱 2006-10-27 09:53 AM
Chaotic dating market in China
Chinanews, Beijing, October 27 – Ms. Yuan had worried about her daughter’s marriage, for she was 24, and had not even a boyfriend. One day, Ms. Yuan went to a dating agency.)S.D5m[C
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The agency showed her the information of some candidates. One seemed to be just right: being the financing executive of a big company, with a private car and apartment and an annual income of 200 thousand yuan. However, Ms. Yuan was told that to pay 5,880 yuan to get that man’s detailed information. )?!@p
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As she had only 1,000 yuan at hand, the agency’s service to Ms. Yuan was discounted. The agreement said she could only get two pieces of dating information for that sum of money. Unfortunately, these two pieces of information only brought two 45-minute meetings.4yP)Cwq3y#MN/k"}#d$\
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Tricks like this are very common in the dating market nowadays. Dating agencies all like to charge very much for “good” information. The price of the information of a man with an annual income of about 4 million yuan is even over 300 thousand yuan!
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Lack of regulation only makes a chaotic dating market, and eventually harms the interest of the public. It is time to take action to give marriage a friendlier environment.