Chinese Dating App Does the Swiping for Singles to Find Love

Chinese city launches state-sponsored dating app

The app, called “Palm Guixi”, includes a platform for organising blind dates, China Youth Daily, a state-run newspaper, reported. Local authorities have been trying hard to boost China's marriage rate, which has been falling simultaneously with the birth rate nationwide for the past decade.

Chinese Dating App Does the Swiping for Singles to Find Love

China’s new state-sponsored dating app, Palm Guixi, is something right out of the dystopia fiction handbook and is receiving mixed responses. The app was reportedly created to streamline the dating process for residents in Jiangxi by matching single users based on background data uploaded by the app itself.Read more...

State-sponsored matchmaking app launched in China

Service in Jiangxi uses data on single residents to build platform amid drive to boost marriage rate

The Chinese state is funding its own dating app

The aim: to increase the marriage rate. The sacred union of marriage seems to be losing popularity in many parts of the world, especially among young people. China is no exception to the rule: in 2021, it had only 5.4 marriages per 1,000 inhabitants (or 7.6...