Potential love hunters have their sights set on the money

Around 100 women out of the 2,000 original applicants in Beijing competing for a matchmaking job with an annual salary of 250,000 yuan plus a car had interviews in the capital on Thursday.

The job, titled love hunter, requires the ability to spot and recommend suitable single ladies for Golden Bachelor Matchmakers, a high-end matchmaking company based in Shanghai.

"We hire single beautiful women to do this job because we believe they are surrounded by single beautiful friends," Xu Tianli, chairman of the company, told METRO on Thursday.