4,000 bachelors to seek love in Vietnam

(ECNS) -- As China's Singles Day is around the corner, a group buying website offered a "seeking your Miss Right in Vietnam" package on Wednesday. Over 4,000 netizens signed up within just seven hours.

According to the promotion, every participant can get into a lottery to win free tickets for a trip to find his other half. The website will reimburse travel expenses for anyone who ends up marrying a Vietnamese woman after the trip.

"Since the cost of marrying a Chinese girl is on the increase in the mainland, I want to find my Miss Right in other countries," said Ma Teng, a 33-year-old vehicle salesman who signed up.

"I once read a report about the benefits of marrying a Vietnamese girl," Ma said. "The report said that it was cost-effective, because the Vietnamese girls wouldn't require houses and cars before marriage.

"What's more, some of them can even speak Chinese."

Unattached Chinese women and men celebrate Singles Day on Nov 11 because the date is composed of the number "one," which is evocative of the Chinese word for bachelor, "guang gun," meaning bare stick.