ALIBABA – Oct 22 - A 2008 online survey conducted by the Matchmaking Services Industry Committee, showed that 45.5% of those surveyed have used matchmaking sites, and 32.6% prefer to find a mate on the Internet. The number of Chinese online daters will reach 140M by 2010, creating a market of up to 1.2 billion yuan ($175.8M), according to iResearch. Zhenai.com, China's largest matchmaking site, where rates range from 5,998 yuan ($879) per year, announced that it had 20M registered users. Jiayuan.com, whose rates go from free to 19,800 yuan ($2,912) annually, said that its total registered members topped 21M. FULL ARTICLE @ ALIBABA.COM
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