Educated, single, looking for love, signs that the times are changing

A SURVEY OF THOSE BORN AFTER 1990 by dating network Qingchunyouyue and the sociology department of Shenzhen University found that most of them living in the first-tier cities were still single. Southern Metropolis Daily comments:

The majority of them said that they would like to get married but they were too busy at work and their social circles were small so they did not meet potential partners. More than half of the men surveyed were willing to use dating networks such as Qingchunyouyue to get introductions, while 62 percent of the women preferred recommendations through relatives or friends.

The reason so many of these highly educated post-1990s adults are still single has something to do with our education model. The exam-oriented education model focuses more on learning knowledge, and ignores cultivating young people's social skills. It means as young adults they are not very adept at communicating with the opposite sex and lack confidence in social interactions. This lack of social interaction with the opposite sex means many young adults have unrealistic notions about love and unrealistic expectations of who their future spouse might be. For instance, the higher the education the more emphasis placed on like-for-like status.