{"id":6007,"date":"2019-11-13T07:53:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T07:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/thoughts-on-survey-of-chinese-city-single-women-zhong-guo-cheng-shi-dan-shen-nv-xing-pai-xing-bang\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T07:53:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T07:53:57","slug":"thoughts-on-survey-of-chinese-city-single-women-zhong-guo-cheng-shi-dan-shen-nv-xing-pai-xing-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/thoughts-on-survey-of-chinese-city-single-women-zhong-guo-cheng-shi-dan-shen-nv-xing-pai-xing-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Survey of Chinese City Single Women \u4e2d\u56fd\u57ce\u5e02\u5355\u8eab\u5973\u6027\u6392\u884c\u699c"},"content":{"rendered":"
I randomly landed on an interesting survey co<\/em>nducted six years ago by a Chinese men’s magazine \u7537\u4eba\u88c5 [For Him Magazine]. The survey is called \u4e2d\u56fd\u57ce\u5e02\u5355\u8eab\u5973\u6027\u6392\u884c\u699c [Chinese City Single Women Scoreboard]. Usually I’m not keen on reading those tabloid space-filler stuff, especially a survey with a typical name like that. But this one caught my eyes with a humorous opening and a claim that the survey took 7 mo<\/em>nths to complete ba<\/em>sed on 8962 single women from 24 different cities in China.<\/p>\n

OK then, if there was serious work behind the survey, then it should worth a read. It’s actually a pretty long survey and in fact the complete survey results had been published as a book! In this post, I’d like to share with you my thoughts on the shortened version of results that were published on the magazine. We’ll learn some new vocabulary along the reading too.<\/p>\n

The first indicator is \u81ea\u4fe1\u5ea6 [co<\/em>nfidence level]. To be more specific, the question being asked for our single women surveyed were how co<\/em>nfident they were on their “look” and “body”. Among all the 24 cities (capital cities and other major cities), \u9999\u6e2f Ho<\/em>ngkong women are among the most co<\/em>nfident ones. 92.13% thought they were “\u7edd\u8272” [the most fairest of all]. I’m not sure whether they were told by the “magic mirror” or they did think that way but I do admire their confidence.<\/p>\n

On the contrary, mainland women were much more modest (or, lack of confidence?). o<\/em>nly 10% on average thought they were very beautiful. (17.95% in \u5317\u4eac Beijing, 11.11% in \u4e0a\u6d77 Shanghai and 3.13% in \u5e7f\u5dde Guangzhou) Compared to Ho<\/em>ngkong women, their performance on this quiz seemingly reflected the deep influence from co<\/em>nfucius – modesty is a virtue. Isn’t it? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Regarding \u793e\u4f1a\u5730\u4f4d [social standing], both Beijing and Shanghai girls seized the top spots of the list. This is no surprise since generally speaking, those two major cities have more opportunities for women to grow their career or social co<\/em>nnections than anywher else. They probably also attracts educated women from other areas to strive for a better future.<\/p>\n

\u6df1\u5733 Shenzhen girls, though living in a similar first-tier city, gave out quite opposite feedback. 34.27% of them closed themselves up at home with very little social life. 35.73% of them felt that their opinions were often not taken seriously. Is it because the dramatically skewed ratio between men and women population left the value of women in that area diluted? It is said that \u7537\u5973\u6bd4\u4f8b [the ratio of men and women] was 1:7 in Shenzhen at one time in the past 15 years! However, since 2011, the ratio finally reverted back due to the growth of high tech companies in the area, which attracted a lot more male employees than female.<\/p>\n

The next question on the scoreboard is “Who are the richest?”<\/p>\n

Shanghai girls topped the list as the richest of all. 17.16% of them owned perso<\/em>nal assets that valued more than 100,0000 RMB (roughly $16,0000). \u6c88\u9633 Shenyang girls were at the bottom of the list as the poorest. That is seemingly related to the slow eco<\/em>nomy and high unemployment rate in that northern area. \u897f\u5b89 Xian\u3001\u4e1c\u839e Do<\/em>ngguan and \u90d1\u5dde Zhenzhou girls were also financially challenged.<\/p>\n

Beijing girls came second to the top of the list.<\/p>\n

However, the o<\/em>nes that earned the most aren’t necessarily the o<\/em>nes spend the most. \u5927\u8fde Dalian girls spend more than 2000 RMB mo<\/em>nthly on average and topped the list of “\u8c01\u6d88\u8d39\u80fd\u529b\u6700\u9ad8” ["Who spend the most?"] <\/p>\n

a<\/em>bout 10% of girls in \u6210\u90fd Chengdu and \u91cd\u5e86 Chongqing, two major cities in \u56db\u5ddd Sichuan province, spend more than they earned. Either they had other financial sources, or they didn’t mind to be on debt. Mind you, in traditio<\/em>nal Chinese thinking, living on debt is very undesirable.<\/p>\n

Speaking of earnings, it is also im<\/em>portant to know \u8c01\u5de5\u4f5c\u538b\u529b\u6700\u5927? [Who gets the most pressure from work?"]. Remember Shanghai girls topped the rich list? It all makes sense that they topped this “work pressure ” list too. The more you earn, the more work pressure you got – not always true, but can’t be wrong under most circumstances, isn’t it? 57.37% of single Shanghai women work lo<\/em>nger than 8 hours per day!<\/p>\n

On the contrary, single women in \u6d4e\u5357 Jinan,  \u90d1\u5dde Zhenzhou and \u82cf\u5dde Suzhou are much more relaxed at work. None of them worked more than 8 hours per day! It proved the above-mentio<\/em>ned rule from a different angle: the less you earn, the less demanding of your work.<\/p>\n

The next indicator is \u8c01\u6027\u5f00\u653e\u5ea6\u6700\u9ad8 ["Who are most open to s e x?"] \u91cd\u5e86 Chongqing, \u6b66\u6c49 Wuhan and \u5927\u8fde Dalian women looked like quite ahead of the other women in that regard. Questions like “For a new date, how long do you wait before you ‘do it’?”, “How long it takes you to use up a whole pack of condoms?” were being asked to get this result.<\/p>\n

Single women in \u6c88\u9633 Shenyang, \u957f\u6c99 Changsha and \u897f\u5b89 Xian were very co<\/em>nservative in this respect according to the survey.<\/p>\n

Now, it comes to women’s \u5a5a\u59fb\u89c2\u5ff5 [attitude toward marriage]. The dominant reason (62.12%) that those single women stayed single was “not able to meet Mr. Right yet”. The second popular reason was “due to better life quality being single” (14.78%) – well, somewhat understood. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

However, the interesting part is that a<\/em>bout 25% \u91cd\u5e86 Cho<\/em>ngqing and \u5357\u4eac Nanjing women admitted that they proposed to their boyfriends at least once! Because of that, they were called as “\u7ed3\u5a5a\u72c2” [marriage maniac] in the magazine. That caught me off guard. I know in this fast-changing, unpredictable world it’s really unnecessary to raise eyebrows on anything unconventional. But to see “reverse proposal” happening in China is quite a shock, a nice shock to be specific. Kudos to those brave girls! Still, that got me thinking, how do you exactly do to propose to a man? You can’t bent your knees, can you? You can’t surprise him with a sparkling ring, can you? Instead of scaring him away, what exactly you can do to propose to a man that is probably not ready?! I don’t have answers to this. I’ll leave that thoughts to you…<\/p>\n

On the other side, the results showed that single women in \u5927\u8fde Dalian didn’t care much a<\/em>bout marriage. 1\/3 of them said “to raise a child without a man is their dream”. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The last but not the least. According to the survey, the magazine discovered that the ideal wife, in terms of who’s best in running a family, can be easily found in one occupation. Can you guess what it is?<\/p>\n

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\u51fa\u7eb3 [cashier] !!!<\/strong><\/div>\n


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