China database lists 'breedready' status of 1.8M women

The database, whose server is in China, included fields labeled in English for sex, age, education, marital status, as well as a column titled “BreedReady”, which could be a poor translation of Chinese terms to describe whether a woman has children or is of child-bearing age, observers noted.

So basically child bearing age or not.

The database also included fields labeled “political” and “hasvideo” as well as links to what appear to be Facebook profile pages.

Is FB use that common in China? It's my understanding that a tedious workaround is required for Facebook, Line, and other forbidden social networks.

Depends on who you are. If you're a common worker, no. If you are member of the economic elite and work with foreign companies, then yes.

When I worked in China, I say most of my team had FB profiles. Then again I was working for a major Chinese IT company and we had a lot of foreign collaborations in open source stuff.

Probably just an unsecured database of a dead matching/marriage app...