The number of new marriages dropped year-on-year across two Chinese provinces in 2021, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday. “In the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu, the number of marriage registrations dropped for a fifth consecutive year in 2021, with a 5.16 per cent fall compared to the numbers seen in 2020,” the newspaper relayed, citing data from the Jiangsu Province Civil Affairs Department.
“In the city of Hefei in the eastern Anhui province, the number of
couples getting married in 2021 dropped by 4,065, or 6.6 per cent
compared to a year earlier,” the SCMP reported. The number of new marriages in Hangzhou, the capital of China’s
eastern Zhejiang province, increased slightly in 2021 compared to 2020.
Despite Hangzhou’s rise in new marriage registrations, the city’s total
figure of such unions in 2021 “was one of the lowest in a decade at more
than 20 per cent down from 2011,” the SCMP observed Thursday..........To Read More....
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