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Farmers go looking for love in cities 

Updated: 2004-03-31 09:26

Zou Qingfeng admitted he even "shocked himself" when he held up a poster in front of a downtown supermarket to tell the public he wanted to find a woman to marry. In China, more than 90 million rural people have left their home villages to work in urban areas.

"I want to start a family but have no other way of finding my love," it read. Zou, a farmer from Quzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, has been working as a plasterer for seven years in Hangzhou, the provincial capital. "I've never had a female co-worker to date and I'm not open enough to find a girlfriend at bars," he said. At 29, Zou says he is too old for girls in his rural hometown who normally married at about 20. "I feel ashamed of myself for the sake of my mother," he says. "She worried so much about me."

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Source : China Daily