Xie Yujie, a 26-year-old resident of Wenzhou, a city of more than nine million some 230 miles south of Shanghai, is unmarried. Despite a promising career as a nurse, her parents remind her daily of her filial duties to find a husband. Xie is looking for love, but her parents chastise her for not being more practical. “Money worship and materialism is the reality,” she explained last week.

26岁的谢玉洁（音）还是单身，她来自温州，一个有900多万人口、位于上海以南大约230英里的城市。她是一名护士，虽然这个职业不错，她的父母依然每天提醒她要找老公以尽孝道。谢玉洁想要追寻真爱，可她的父母却怪她太不现实。“拜金主义和物质主义才是现实，” 她解释说。

And so now some single women in Chengdu, in southwest China, pay more than $3,100 for a special training course in how to snag a millionaire husband.

而在中国西南部的城市成都，有些单身女性花了3100多美元参加特殊训练课，培训的主题是如何钓到富豪老公。

These are extremes, of course, but the pressures are real. Although China’s skewed birth rate means there will be a surplus of about 24 million men in China by 2020, the majority of these bachelors will live in rural areas. In major cities — where the rate of housing costs to income can reach 12:1 — finding a good match is a constant worry for educated, ambitious women.

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