Fast facts: Changing marriage ideas

Attitudes towards love and marriage are changing among Chinese people. More are delaying marriage out of financial concerns: No money, no marriage.

Housing, savings and income are top of the agenda for about 70 percent of more than 32,000 women interviewed, according to a 2010 Chinese Marriage Status report conducted by the China Association of Marriage and Family Studies.

"Of course, a woman can make it by herself but she can do it faster with a man," said Gong Haiyan, founder of Shiji Jiayuan, one of the country's largest dating websites.

About 47 percent of single Chinese men and women aged between 20 and 24 got married in 2005, but that fell to 37 percent in 2009, according to the 2010-2011 Pink Paper Report on Marriage and Love among China's Single Persons.

The number of singles aged between 18 and 34 will hit 180 million this year, 60 million of them urban citizens, the report predicts.

Tips to landing a rich Chinese man

Stay calm when presented with luxury gifts;

Befriend his parents or extended family;

Go where the rich are: fancy bars, restaurants, ceremonies and private clubs;

Learn how to behave in an expensive restaurant and study formal party dress codes;

Don't be sycophantic, no matter how much you love his money.