Migrants seek wives in Vietnam
February 2, 2010 Filed under News
Hong Lin hopes to find a romantic partner in Vietnam. Photo provided by Ran Wen
By Li Zhixin
Finding someone to love is tough in the big city: it is tougher when you are a migrant worker.
Hong Lin, 22, headed for Vietnam.
Hong, a migrant worker from Chongqing who was hired to work in Beijing construction last year, was inspired by a news story about another Chongqing cook who worked in Ho Chi Minh City and brought home a Vietnamese bride.
He quit his job at the beginning of the year, returned home and applied for a passport. “I will go to Vietnam next month once I get a visa and a translator,” he said.
Hong became a migrant worker when he was 17 years old, and he has worked in Beijing, Guangzhou and Qingdao without a chance to find love since women are oddly underrepresented on construction sites.
Hong also attended several dating fairs for migrant workers, but was disappointed when women did not show up.
In order to find a partner, he once quit his job at a bicycle factory and went to work at an electronics equipment factory known for employing women. “As soon as they knew I was a migrant worker, they wanted nothing to do with me,” he said. “My relatives introduced women to me several times, but they claimed to have boyfriends when they found out what I did for a living.”
baga lalo on Fri, 22nd Jul 2011 6:38 am
anyone who is a foreigner marries a vietnamese women must be with his honesty, sicerety , humanitarianism, respect, petty, sympathy,consolation,caring,family orientation,kindness,consideration,pampering,and more ethics to treat his vietnamese wife. then she wud attend you as an emperor indeed and certainly true.