As I Chinese living in the US, I always found this kind of news reports fascinating and inform me something new about Chinese society to me: strange and bizarre businesses/markets arising from some twisted cultural background, reflecting the confused mindset this new generation of of Chinese people.<p>On a related note, matchmakers aren't certainly the only ones banking the profits exploiting the traditional and failing marriage/relationship mechanisms in the society. A few years ago, this seemingly dull reality TV show (If you are the one) on dating suddenly gained popularity and became a heated discussion, bringing to attention the confusion surrounding marriage and a wide range of social topics. You can just see in the show how China as a society failed to come up a coherent value system that could address love, relationship, marriage, wealth and pretty much anything meaningful.<p>Related background on the show and its contents, which also covers the unsurprising step-in of censorship:
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/world/asia/censors-pull-reins-as-china-tv-chasing-profit-gets-racy.html?pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/world/asia/censors-pull-re...</a>