Marriage registrations in China could fall to as low as 6.01 million this year, prompting cash incentives from some local governments China is on track to post its lowest number of marriage ...

The 30 women sat in wooden chairs, facing each other in a rectangular formation. At the front of the room was the ruling Communist Party’s hammer and sickle logo, with a sign declaring the meeting’s ...

Recently released Chinese government statistics show marriages continue to decline, with only 4.75 million couples registering in the third quarter. Chinese policymakers are urgently trying to address ...

Retirees roam ’marriage markets’ armed with paper profiles listing their unwed children’s physical traits, finances and requirements; ‘not too chubby’ ...

The average marriage age for first marriages was 28.67 years old in 2020, up from 24.89 years old a decade prior, according to census data. Efforts from Chinese officials in recent years to reverse ...

An elementary school in Yimianpo is now a storage yard. The number of children in the town has dropped by half and there are ...

The civil affairs department of Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang Province, has issued marriage consumption vouchers worth 1,000 yuan ($140) per couple for newlyweds who have recently registered their ...

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China's gender imbalance has birthed a shadow industry of bride-trafficking, where poor women from several Asian countries, ...

Devastating footage from the north-central China province of Gansu shows a beautiful bride bawling at her wedding because she’s being forced to marry a man she barely knows, AsiaWire T4 reports. The ...

China's marriage rate is hitting record lows, and Beijing is struggling to stop the freefall. As China modernizes, more women are rejecting marriage in pursuit of financial freedom. That's led to a ...

A woman married is like a pony bought —to be ridden or whipped at the master’s pleasure. For generations this maxim said much of what there was to say about marriage in the male-dominated world of ...