Ever thought of scoring the woman in your life?

Netizen Qingkuangshusheng (meaning "frivolous intellectual"), has posted on Yangzhou Forum, a popular information exchange platform in central Jiangsu province's Yangzhou city, a detailed scoring system for women that has sparked heated debate and drawn furious comments from female readers.

Under the scoring system, a girlfriend or wife has a minimum value of 1,000 yuan ($158), which is adjusted according to 44 criteria.

If she can cook, add 300 yuan; if she smokes, subtract 200 yuan. More controversial criteria include weight (below 50 kg, or subtract 100 yuan for each extra 5 kg).

Women with no prior "love affairs" are worth another 100 yuan, while the value of those who have "a history" is 100 yuan less.

The writer concludes that a girlfriend who's only worth about 1,500 yuan should be dumped. "Those with prices between 2,500 and 3,500 yuan are really competitive and worth a thought.

"If you happen to meet someone with a price over 3,500 yuan, marry her as soon as possible. You cannot afford to miss her."

While some male netizens posted comments such as "my wife is worth a lot", many female netizens were furious. "I find this kind of rating totally nonsensical. I don't have time for this kind of scoring," said Dorathy Ding, 26, assistant general manager at a Beijing-based Chinese-French insurance company.

"I've seen this kind of rating before. You can consider it as nothing more than recreation for men. But if in real life, a guy scores his girlfriend or wife according to this and compares her with other women on that basis, I think he is totally out of his mind," she said.

Netizen "A bad girl" wrote on the Sohu forum that she has seen similar systems for rating boyfriends and husbands. "People are just picturing their dream spouses," she wrote.