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Businessman adorns buses with lonely heart ad
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-12-22 08:45

A businessman in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, has placed a lonely heart ad on the billboards of 40 bus stations and buses in a bid to find a wife.

Yang, a 37-year-old man in charge of a local printing company, has been so busy in recent years he hasn't had the time to find a life partner.

"People in my family always urge me to marry quickly as I'm not getting any younger, and this time I won't take the ads off until they bring me the perfect other half," Yang said.

He said he wasn't expecting immediate success from his novel approach, but he did receive several applications on the first day, some of whom even met him face to face.

Some expressed their support for his approach to finding a wife, while others considered its commercial nature at odds with the sanctity of marriage.

(Nanchang Evening News)