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Twenty Chinese men, including several on the country's richest list, paid US$8000 ($10,600) a head to attend a matchmaking party with 30 "single young beauties".
The controversial party was held at a luxury European-style villa in Shanghai, the birthplace of China's Communist Party in 1921, with guests arriving in stretch limousines and getting the full red-carpet treatment.
"To disguise their identities from photographers' cameras, all guests scurried into the venue wearing a face mask, some even using a paper bag," the China Daily said.
Each male guest paid a 58,800 yuan ($10,300) entrance fee, while the women, chosen for their "looks, kindness, thought and taste", were selected from tens of thousands of candidates, said the social network website (www.915915.com.cn) which organised the event.
The site's marketing director said dating arrangements were among the firm's services.
- Reuters
