VICE.COM - Communist Party officials from the northern city of Luanzhou have begun work on gathering the personal information of unmarried men and women, and entering collected data in a central database. Two group dating parties have been organized already this year, with a virtual dating party scheduled to be held on New Year's Eve on app Douyin, the original Chinese version of TikTok. But the government's intentions, however good, were lost on many Chinese internet users, who remained skeptical about their approach to finding love. Gender imbalance remains a huge issue in Chinese society, a hangover of the country’s decades-long one-child policy which saw a strong preference for boys over girls.
by Heather Chen
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