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in the united states，the lonely have reddit and cats. in china，they have singles' day，which falls on nov. 11 -- ，the four ones symbolizing "bare branches，" chinese slang for bachelors. thought to have originated about 20 years ago as a joke on college campuses，singles' day was once an occasion for confessing one's feelings to that special someone. but since 2010，online retailers have transformed the holiday，also known as "double 11，" into an epic online shopping extravaganza akin to america's cyber monday.
china has 271 million online consumers， meaning that almost half of china's 591 million internet users buy products online. e-commerce sites taobao and tmall， which saw a combined
1 trillion in sales in 2012，will both be running promotional campaigns during china's singles' day. among the
offers：50 percent discounts on products like boyfriend body pillows and hoodies that read "i am single because i am fat." amazon。cndeclared that the site would sell "20，000 products discounted by as much as 90 percent." that includes a wedding ring，which singles can presumably buy， just in case.
jack ma， founder of internet giant alibaba， told chinese premier li keqiang late last month that alibaba's sales on singles' day 2012 were "nearly
billion" -- more than double the roughly
billion purchased on cyber monday in 2012. for singles' day 2013， ma expects sales to exceed
billion.
the rise of singletons as a consumer group is not without its own costs. chinese business magazine caijing reported that big delivery companies were forced to scramble to find over 100 extra airplanes to handle the 323 million parcels they needed to deliver over the singles' day shopping period.
the holiday strains the logistics system：products frequently sell out or arrive late. even when everything moves smoothly，consumers complain about commercial gimmicks. according to
the beijing evening news，a popular local paper，some online retailers quietly raise prices before slashing them.
but chinese have not forgotten about the true meaning of this holiday：hating singlehood. singles' day is an occasion on which chinese confess their feelings and try to find
significant others. on nov. 7，with four days to go before
the holiday，the top trending topic on weibo， china's
twitter， was "help your roommate find someone." over 200，
000 people participated in the discussion， posting pictures
of their roommates (and sometimes themselves) in hopes of avoiding another lonely singles' day.
chinese are no strangers to loneliness：there are tens of millions of men in china who may never find love due to the country's massive gender imbalance，a result of the one child policy and a longstanding preference for male children. chinese women don't have it easy either：those who remain
