At a city park in Jinan, China, around 100 singles are gathered in the hope of finding love. Written profiles of guests detailing age, profession and income are strung up between trees to help participants choose prospective partners, while an MC presides over team games to help break the ice. Events like these, organised by the youth league of China's ruling Communist Party, have sprung up around the country in recent years as the government battles a worrying fall in birth and marriage rates.
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