These intermediary agents help such women in their nuptial pursuit, from courting prospective grooms to penning love letters in English to help screen matrimonial candidates.
With an aspiration to start a new life in the West, these ladies establish a connection with these foreign men and travel abroad but not all have a fairy tale ending.
In a recent case heard by a Beijing court, a man was convicted of fraud after he provided the aforementioned service to 23 women but failed to find a Western husband for any of them, state run Global Times reported.
The huge demands for such services and authorities not taking action on agents have allowed them to operate smoothly and largely above board for two decades, it said.
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"We sign up for accounts for our clients on different international dating sites and chat with foreign men on behalf of our clients," one employee for the agency, Tingting, said.
She added that they have access to clients' mailboxes and translate the letters sent and received by the clients.
The foreign men have no idea that they are talking to an intermediary agent, instead of the matrimonially-inclined Chinese woman herself, Tingting said.
That is why we pretend to be the clients themselves," she told Global Times.
"In China, older women have trouble finding spouses, but unlike Chinese men, Western guys don't care so much about a woman's age and whether she's divorced or not," she said.
"On the contrary, they often fancy Chinese women more as Chinese women have the reputation of taking care of their families and being mild-tempered," she said.
But most efforts ends up in failure due to language barriers.
"But even if they marry a foreign man and go to live in the West, their marriages often end unhappily," Hu said.
"The communication barrier between the couples becomes a big problem as time passes," he said.