this episode is so sweet :) wish all of them my best luck to find the girls (or guys) of their life! but still can't believe the last guy would not want a pretty wife but a good cook. more surprisingly, NOBODY would want to marry a beijing girl?! that's harsh

I think most of them never can dream of marrying a bj girl. It just looks so impossible, unreal. Then that becomes 'no willing' to marry a bj girl.
Life is fair, it's so unfair that just the place of birth will make your life so different. But that's tough reality.

Traditionally, wedding in China have not had nothing to do with "love": wedding was just a contract, an agreement between two families. The foundation of the Republic of China in 1912 and People's Republic of China in 1949 have not completely changed this old habit. During Maoist era, it was pretty common for a young people to marry a man or a woman of the same unit of work (danwei) or still a person of the same village, known through a "matchmaker". As we can imagine, there were not so many occasion of meetings or opportunity to know new guys or girls, cause there where not bar, discos, party and the mobility of the people where strictly controlled. Generally speaking, about wedding and love, I think nowadays China has not changed that much: if we think about migrant workers we are talking about people who came from poor villages, where traditional habits and culture are still strongly respected. That is why I think this video is not strange or surprising at all, what this workers do in cities like Beijing, Shanghai or Canton is not look for a girl, seek for love or marry as soon as possible, but look for a job, gain money ad run away to their village to marry through a matchmaker, have at least one baby and spend a serene life.

these migrant workers are getting exploited by socialism with chinese charateristics. but are they also getting used by well fed foreigners making videos for other well fed foreigners' amusement?

I completely agree (if you can agree with a question...) with Gao Zhi's point. Anyway, it helps foreigners to (somehow) understand Chinese contemporary society.

Great episode, Sufei! I met you last year at the Kanye show, and continue to follow the new episodes from the States.

It's not much different for migrant workers anywhere in the world. Knowing quite a few here in the US, I have heard many stories of gross exploitation.

Sufei does a wonderful job of humanizing these guys. A segment of society that is usually used then ignored.