A Chinese cupid has launched a nationwide manhunt on behalf of 36 female millionaires who have made fortunes from their country’s breathtaking economic boom but have failed to find love.

Johnny Du, the CEO of online dating start-up 51Taonan.com (IWantAMan.com), kicked-off his quest last month and aims to find suitable husbands for some of the most eligible women in modern China.

The women include real estate magnates and manufacturing tycoons from Sichuan province who have been unable to find Mr Right despite, or perhaps because of, their ballooning bank-balances.

“I believe this is the first time [there has been such a scheme] only tailored for wealthy women,” Mr Du told The Daily Telegraph this week during a visit to Shanghai, one of the cities he is tapping for potential husbands.

Dating is big business in China, a country that is reputedly home to some 180 million single people. Early this year the founder of one of China’s biggest online dating sites – Baihe.com – told local television his company was making annual profits of around £20 million from its 36 million registered users.

But in a country notorious for a dramatic gender-imbalance that has condemned millions of men to single-life, most matchmaking agencies focus on fixing the love lives of Chinese men.

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