{"id":55957,"date":"2023-06-14T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/14\/marriages-in-china-drop-to-record-low-despite-government-push"},"modified":"2023-06-14T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T00:00:13","slug":"marriages-in-china-drop-to-record-low-despite-government-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55957","title":{"rendered":"Marriages in China drop to record low despite government push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Number of couples tying knot fell 800,000 in 2022 amid birthrate \u2018crisis\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The number of marriages in China last year dropped to 6.83 million, the lowest since records began in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Data <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mca.gov.cn\/mzsj\/xzqh\/2022\/202204tjsj.htm\">released<\/a> by the Ministry of Civil Affairs showed the number of couples tying the knot in 2022 fell by about 800,000 compared with 2021, beating that year\u2019s record low.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/14\/marriages-in-china-drop-to-record-low-despite-government-push\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of couples tying knot fell 800,000 in 2022 amid birthrate \u2018crisis\u2019The number of marriages in China last year dropped to 6.83 million, the lowest since records began in 1986.Data released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs showed the number of coup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,706,79,281,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-population","category-society","category-women","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55958,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55957\/revisions\/55958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}