A RECENT report by Zhenai.com, a dating website, shows that about half of the single women in Shenzhen are not worried about finding a long-term partner, a huge difference from Guangzhou, where more than 90 percent of women surveyed expressed a “sense of crisis” about being single, the Shenzhen Economic Daily reported yesterday.

    The report relied on the website’s 80 million registered users nationwide and showed that about half of Shenzhen’s single women were confident that they would eventually find the right person.

    According to a website employee, Shenzhen’s business culture leads many women to focus on their careers more than their personal lives.

    In addition, many women are migrants from other parts of the country and don’t face pressure from their families to get married. They also do social activities in their spare time, according to the report.

    According to the report, women in Shenzhen are unwilling to enter relationships with men who do not work and live in Shenzhen while single men are reluctant to date someone who is not from the same hometown as them.

    Over 31 percent of Shenzhen’s single men said the biggest obstacle to date someone from a different city is supporting the parents on the woman’s side of the family if they don’t live in the same city as the man’s parents.

    Thirty-five percent of Shenzhen’s single women said the main problem for a long-distance relationship would be arguments about where a newly married couple should live after marriage.

    According to the report, single men in Beijing and single women in Guangzhou are most worried about being single. Over 80 percent of Beijing’s single men are upset about being single, while 96 percent of Guangzhou’s single women have a “sense of crisis” about being single.

    The dating website released the report ahead of Nov. 11, a day widely regarded as the Single’s Day, or Guanggun Jie, in China. The date “11/11” represents single people.

    (Zhang Yang)