'They want brides with white skin and blue eyes': Rich Chinese businessmen pay thousands of pounds to go on 'wife tours' of Siberia due to a shortage of women in their country

    Rich Chinese men are travelling to Siberia in search of a bride to marry
    It comes as there is a shortfall of eligible women for them back in China
    They pay thousands to attend meetings to be set up with Russian women
    Matchmaker says the men are serious and fall in love with women very quickly [CN]

中国富有商人到西伯利亚旅游开始“猎妻”。原因是中国女人数量奇缺。他们一掷千金去参加和俄国妇女会晤的约会。媒人们表示这些人是认真的，很快就和这些女人相爱了。

Rich Chinese businessmen are introduced to Siberian women by a marriage agency in a restaurant in the city of Novosibirsk[CN]

这些富有的生意人被婚介公司介绍给西伯利亚女人，在新西伯利亚市的饭馆见面。

Rich Chinese businessmen are paying thousands of pounds to go on 'wife tours' in Siberia in search of fair-skinned, blue-eyed brides[CN]

中国土豪生意人花上上千英镑在西伯利亚开启猎妻之旅，以寻找皮肤白皙，眼睛蓝邃的老婆。

Pictures from the upmarket singles tour look more like a stilted business meeting - but the Russian marriage agency behind the tours say it has had massive success in matching well-to-do men with local women[CN]

这张优质单身汉之旅更像闪耀的商人会议 - 但幕后的婚介公司说，他们已经成功的撮合了许多对的成功人士和当地妇女的婚姻。

Not everyone can afford a costly single's tour and one Chinese man is shown on a video playing a doleful saxophone tune in Russia to try and attract women[CN]

并不是每个人都花得起这个钱参加这个昂贵的单身之旅的。一名中国男子在俄国会上吹奏忧伤的萨克斯风，试图吸引这些女人。

Rich Chinese businessmen are paying thousands of pounds to go on 'wife tours' in Siberia in search of fair-skinned, blue-eyed brides due to a shortage of women in their home country.[CN]

中国土豪生意人花上上千英镑在西伯利亚开启猎妻之旅，以寻找皮肤白皙，眼睛蓝邃的老婆。

Pictures from the upmarket singles tour look more like a stilted business meeting - but the Russian marriage agency behind the tours say it has had massive success in matching well-to-do men with local women.

At a recent session in Novosibirsk, Siberia's largest city, five Chinese bachelors attended a meeting arranged by Elena Suvorova, head of the marriage agency OCD Centre.

There was supposed to be eight but three stayed in in Khabarovsk, where a previous meeting had been held, as they had already found partners to wed.

But not everyone can afford a costly single's tour and one Chinese man is shown on a video playing a doleful saxophone tune in the Russian border city of Blagoveshchensk, in the Far East of Russia, to attract attention from local women.

Unseen on the video but there was piece of paper by his feet has a handwritten note reading: 'Calm, balanced. Looking for a Russian girlfriend.'

China has 120 men for every 100 women, with 34 million more males than females.

But in Russia there are 85 men for every 100 women, and at sessions on the popular singles tours, the Chinese businessmen are introduced to groups of 25 or so women, all under 35.

Ms Suvorova explained: 'For them, a Russian woman is like a present. Men want to get married, and are committed for serious relationships.

'All the girls who we invited are under 35-years-old. Initially, the men want to see brides with white skin and blue eyes.

'Funnily enough though, last year the girls who got into a relationship were brunettes with brown eyes.'

Meanwhile the matchmaker also praised the 'quite successful' Chinese men for their attitude towards the women.

She told the Siberian Times: 'Chinese men treat women with respect.

'It is important for them that the woman is moderate, natural, calm, smiling, and not competing with the man.'

She also claimed the men are serious and quickly fall in love with Siberian women.

She added: 'Last year we organised the first singles' tour when Chinese men visited Novosibirsk. There were six men and 25 girls.

'After a meeting in Novosibirsk, there were two couples. And three couples after a stopover in Krasnoyarsk.'

The sex imbalance in China has been blamed on the country's historic 'one child' policy which which led parents to abandon girls or use sex-selective abortion to guarantee a son.

Russia's uneven demographics are seen as caused in part by the huge losses of Red Army soldiers in the Second World War.