Matching fields for Urban Youths in China: A Field Research Based on Ten thousand People Blind Date

As a hot social concern, the mode and process of matching about the young people is changing. Ten thousand People Blind Date (TTPBD) provides a new type of mating field for urban youths, as our society to make efforts for solving the problem of marriages of them. Empirical Analysis found, as social fields for marriage choosing, TTPBD could be a platform to help communicate for youths, but it failed in gaining any effect. There are several factors influencing it greatly, such as conflict of interest between supply and demand caused by the information asymmetry and public opinion, the restricting of activities of the public welfare due to elite and media conspiracy, the dislocation about the logic of marriage mating leaded by marketization operation and blind date panic, and the fuzzy of choosing from attendances. Although the operation rules by its own influence, it can’t directly solve mating-selection problem for urban youths. Therefore, this field is also useful to them.