{"id":1109566,"date":"2021-12-11T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1109566"},"modified":"2021-12-11T16:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:59:13","slug":"china-marriage-license-applications-drop-to-13-year-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-marriage-license-applications-drop-to-13-year-low\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Marriage License Applications Drop to 13-Year Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-marriage-license-applications-drop-to-13-year-low%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1109566&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Only 5.9 million couples in China applied for&nbsp;new marriage licenses in&nbsp;the first three quarters of 2021, marking a 13-year low for such a figure,&nbsp;the <em>Financial Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f0fe5b5e-6a0f-4b39-b457-db07294c696f\">reported<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>The number of new marriages in China has declined \u201cfor eight consecutive years,\u201d the Japanese-owned newspaper observed on December 7.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cA big challenge has been the country\u2019s gender imbalance, with young men outnumbering women of similar age by a considerable margin after decades of China\u2019s one-child policy,\u201d according to the <em>Financial Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe space for new policy is limited when you have more young men than women,\u201d an unnamed Beijing-based government adviser told the publication. \u201cIt is inevitable that a lot of men will remain single in their lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government official said China\u2019s gender imbalance has \u201cbarely improved\u201d from the country\u2019s 2010 census. That census revealed China was home to 2.2 million single men between the ages of 25 and 34 and 1.2 million single women in the same age demographic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to see a recovery in marriage when gender imbalance is so big,\u201d the Beijing government adviser predicted.<\/p>\n<p>China <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stats.gov.cn\/english\/PressRelease\/202105\/t20210510_1817185.html\">documented<\/a> 12 million births last year, according to the nation\u2019s 2020 census data. The statistic&nbsp;marked a sharp decrease from 2019, when China logged 14.65 million new births and the lowest such figure since 1961.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ruling Communist Party imposed a notorious \u201cone-child policy\u201d starting in the late 1970s, which limited couples to having just one child. Beijing enforced the austere measure with the short-sighted aim of curbing China\u2019s then-booming population. The&nbsp;\u201cone-child policy\u201d remained in place until 2016, when Communist Party officials finally eased the measure to allow couples up to two children. China\u2019s federal government further expanded its child allowance to three children per couple in May 2020. The changes came after Beijing realized decades of a \u201cone-child policy\u201d had caused harmful distortions to the Chinese population.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19095970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Chinese-parents-with-kids-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19095970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Chinese-parents-with-kids-ap.jpg\" alt=\"Residents bring their children to play in a compound near a commercial office building in Beijing on May 10, 2021. China&#039;s ruling Communist Party will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two to cope with the rapid rise in the average age of its population, a state news agency said Monday, May 31. (AP Photo\/Andy Wong)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents bring their children to play in a compound near a commercial office building in Beijing on May 10, 2021. China\u2019s ruling Communist Party will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two to cope with the rapid rise in the average age of its population, a state news agency said Monday, May 31 (AP Photo\/Andy Wong).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cChina had a fertility rate of just 1.3 children per woman in 2020, recent state data showed, on par with aging societies like Japan and Italy and far short of the roughly 2.1 needed for replacement level,\u201d Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/researcher-questions-chinas-population-data-says-it-may-be-lower-2021-12-03\/\">reported<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is now scrambling to boost its population by encouraging young couples across China to marry and procreate through state-backed incentives. The local government of Shaanxi, a province in northwestern China, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/05\/birth-rate-collapse-china-province-proposes-nearly-one-year-paid-maternity-leave\/\">proposed<\/a> a plan last month to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/babies-wanted-chinese-province-may-offer-year-maternity-leave-2021-11-03\/\">offer<\/a> nearly one year of paid maternity leave to new mothers as part of the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The state-run news site China Reports Network <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/world\/archives\/2021\/12\/11\/2003769413\">published<\/a> an editorial in November asserting all CCP members \u201cshould shoulder the responsibility and obligation of the country\u2019s population growth and act on the three-child policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo party member should use any excuse, objective or personal, to not marry or have children, nor can they use any excuse to have only one or two children,\u201d the article read. The editorial disappeared from the site, however, after widespread outrage in China.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Ma, the founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, encouraged his own staff to marry by presiding over a mass wedding celebration at his company headquarters in Hangzhou each year from about 2004 \u2013 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wedding isn\u2019t an official ceremony, but rather a celebration of all the Alibaba couples who have got married over the past year,\u201d Business Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/photos-inside-alibaba-annual-wedding-ali-day-celebration-2019-5#ali-day-has-been-running-for-15-years-and-the-company-claims-it-came-into-being-because-of-sars-1\">reported<\/a> in June 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJack Ma drew criticism for this year\u2019s Ali Day wedding ceremony, when he encouraged the couples to have lots of sex and bear children,\u201d the news site noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 5.9 million couples in China applied for\u00a0new marriage licenses in\u00a0the first three quarters of 2021, marking a 13-year low for such a figure,\u00a0the Financial Times reported this week. 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