Baihe.Com, a leading Chinese match making portal, will screen its eight million online daters against an “ID authentication system�. The new system was jointly developed by the website and the ministry of public security. The system will check the age, marital status and other personal details of prospective cyber daters against an official database to prevent deception.
Lie about your age, weight and height and you may end up in jail. Sounds like just the sort of dating site I’d like to belong to.
GSR Ventures and Mayfield Fund jointly invested $2 million in Baihe.com–which means “Lily” in English–in late 2005.
The service has over 6.5 million members, and in December began charging $255 for its high-end “Golden” service, with the promise of a “stable love relationship” within six months for most users.
