Chinese students like to marry after graduation

BEIJING - About 70 percent of Chinese college students want to marry immediately after graduation while 46 percent want a rich spouse, a study has found.

“I would rather cry in the back of a BMW rather than laugh on a bike,” said a participant in the survey conducted by matchmaking website hongniang.com.

It’s quite popular among youth to marry the rich, but it also reflected a gloomy view of marriage and love, People’s Daily reported quoting the study Monday.

Marriage counselor Yan Shan said a rich spouse is a favourite choice because of strong social rivalry and job pressure among youth today.

However, 46 percent of participants said they will make a “rational” choice when faced with reality, some participants said they don’t care whether their girlfriends and boyfriends are rich, while others said they won’t knowingly look for a rich partner, but would seek true love.

The study also shows some women are too busy to consider marriage. They are educated, have high social status, older and seek many requisites in their partners.

Seventy percent of respondents said they will agree to sex before marriage.