China’s newly rich women deemed ‘leftovers’ at 28

SO you’re independent and living the good life as a millionaire in your 20s — you should make the perfect catch, right? Not in this country.

Wealthy women are struggling to find love in China

SO you’re independent and living the good life as a millionaire in your 20s — you should make the perfect catch, right?

Well apparently not, if you happen to be a woman looking for love in modern China.

A Dateline investigation reveals that putting career before love remains an untested concept in China — a symptom of western ambition that is clashing with the traditions of highly-influential older generations.

“I think being a wealthy single woman is likely to be seen as a strong woman. This may create a negative impression and impact on my pursuit of love,” Deng Feng, one of China’s wealthy singletons tells Dateline.

“… a female entrepreneur is strong at work, she may also appear strong at home by habit. The man … finds it very hard to adjust,” she says.

Desperate and dateless ... Wealthy young women are struggling to find love in China.

It could be a social time bomb for China.

The nation’s skewed gender imbalance means there are currently 118 men for every 100 women — and around 200 million Chinese are currently single.

Yet despite the statistical shortage of women, Chinese men remain picky and unmarried women aged over 28 in China are branded ‘leftovers’.

“Chinese girls, women, they psychologically grow older faster [compared to] Western girls,” Johnson Xie, a single man attending one of China’s many ‘hook-up’ parties says.

Lavish, large-scale matchmaking parties are now big business in China and the popularity of one online dating service has surged to the point where it is now listed on the Nasdaq stock market.

You can watch the full Dateline investigation above.