Matchmakers are rushing to cash in at matchmaking fairs and other events.
如今,婚介机构正你争我赶,利用集体相亲活动和其他活动赚钱。
Fifteen thousand women applied for a chance to date a wealthy man at an event May 1 organized by matchmaking website jiayuan.com, says Zhang Guoyu, director of the company's Southwest China branch. In June, 50 of them will meet the men who paid $14,650 for the service.
世纪佳缘交友网西南区总监张国玉说,15000名女性报名参加他们公司5月1日举行的活动,争夺与一名富翁的相亲机会。她们当中的5 0人将于6月份与这名男士会面,后者为此支付了14650美元。
No TV show can fully reflect social reality, says Yin Hong, a Chinese television scholar at Beijing's Tsinghua University. He prefers If You Are the One because "It's more controversial." Why so popular? "China's social environment is changing, as people dare to express their private life and love values in public," he says.
清华大学的电视学者尹鸿说,没有任何一个电视节目能完全反映社会现状。他更喜欢《非诚勿扰》。他说:“这个节目更具争议性,冲突更激烈。”那么,这个节目为什么如此受欢迎呢?他说:“中国的社会环境在不断变化,人们敢于表达私生活和爱情价值观。”