Fei Lai /Shanghai Daily news

Chatting online and joining in offline activities to make friends and find true love is becoming more and more trendy among Shanghai youngsters.

On Saturday, 800 young people from 30 companies and institutions such as Shanghai Customs, Baosteel Group and Shanghai Bureau of Astronautics attended a dating event at Shanghai Circus City.

Organized by 12355City-Youth.cn, it is the first offline event after the platform was established in May.

The organizer donated 50 wheelchairs to the World Wheelchair Foundation. The wheelchairs would be offered to survivors in the quake-hit Dujiangyan in Sichuan Province. Shanghai has paired with Dujiangyan in reconstruction.

"Young people in a metropolitan city like Shanghai should not only be fashionable and talented, but also show enthusiasm in charity work," said Xu Bing of the Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League.