After the first negative growth in China ’s population in 60 years, the number of marriage registrations in 2022 also fell to a new low since the record. This is the ninth consecutive year after the number of marriage registrations in China reached the peak in 2013.
Scholars of interviewed scholars analyzed that if the Chinese economy stabilizes after the epidemic, the decline in the number of marriage registrations may be alleviated, but the overall decline will be difficult to reverse.
The statistical season report released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs last Friday (June 9) showed that the number of weddings in China in 2022 was 6.833 million pairs, which was the lowest point since the Ministry of Civil Affairs website announced in 1986.The number of Chinese marriage in China reached a peak of 134.69 million pairs in 2013, and then fell for nine consecutive years. In 2019, it fell below 10 million pairs, fell below 9 million pairs in 2020, fell below 8 million pairs in 2021, and fell below 700 for the first time in 2022 for the first time.Ten 10,000 pairs.
Some analysts believe that the number of Chinese weddings has decreased and the epidemic, the decrease in the number of marriage people, the delay of the age of marriage, and changes in ideological concepts.
The decline in the decline in the number of marriage registration in China has accelerated significantly after the epidemic, and the decline exceeded 10%twice in 2020 and 2022, reaching 12.19%and 10.52%, respectively.Compared with the highest peak in 2013, the number of weddings in 2022 decreased by nearly half, down 49.3%.
The official website of the National Bureau of Statistics of China shows that in 2022, women aged 21 to 35 have decreased by nearly 5 million women at the age of 35, which are in a strong period of marriage and fertility.
Yang Jinrui, deputy director of the Family Division of the National Health Commission of China, pointed out last year that "the" post -90s "" post -00s "as the new main body of marriage and childbirth, most of them grow and work in cities and towns.The pressure of employment competition is greater, and the postponement of marriage and childbirth is very prominent.According to the Chinese population census year, the average first marriage age in China in 2020 was 28.67 years, an increase of 3.78 years from the average first marriage age in 2010.
In the context of the continued decline in the number of marriage registration in China, the Chinese population has grown for the first time in 1961 in 2022, and India has also replaced China as the world's first largest country this year.In order to encourage marriage and fertility, governments from all over China have launched encouraging measures in the past few years, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs will open up to 21 provinces including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, and Inner Mongolia from June 1 to implement mainland residents' marriage registration and divorce registration "cross -provincial generalization".Pilot.
Shen Xiuhua, an associate professor at the Institute of Sociology, Tsinghua University in Taiwan, pointed out in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that marriage is not only because of love, but also a way for people to seek to enter a more stable life stage. In this processEnough stability.However, in the past few years, the high -pressure epidemic prevention policy on the mainland has made people strongly feel the uneasy sense of life. In addition, young people who are in the marriage age after the epidemic are not optimistic about the economy and employment prospects. These factors will affect the marriage of young people.Wishes.
Some opinion believes that after the epidemic is loosened, the number of marriage people in China may be relieved.However, the number of marriage registrations in China has continued to decline this year.According to Chinese media reports, on the day of the popular wedding date on May 20 this year, although the number of marriage registrations in various places, the number of marriage registrations in many places decreased significantly compared with last year.Guizhou is one of the provinces with large declines, compared with 53.8%compared with last year; Guangdong, Fujian, and Sichuan decreased by 40.41%, 38.28%, and 36%year -on -year.
Shen Xiuhua believes that whether the decline in the number of marriage registrations will still be observed after the epidemic is relieved, and the changes in China's economy are one of the most important factor.If China's economy continues to improve and stabilizes, the rate of decline in the number of marriage registrations may slow down, but the trend of decline in the overall number of weddings is unlikely to flip.
