BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing announced its latest arranged marriage by matching the country's top coal miner with one of its biggest utilities to create a global powerhouse worth $280 billion on ...

Couples hug each other during a group wedding at the Harbin Ice-Snow World in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on January 6, 2025. The number of new marriages recorded in China fell to ...

The number of new marriages recorded in China is on course to fall this year to the lowest level since records began, official data shows, as the country’s demographic crisis deepens despite a ...

From Married at First Sight to Indian Matchmaking, arranged marriages have been reality TV fodder for years. But, as is true of many a reality TV relationship, arranged or not, what we see onscreen ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Numbers of marriages in China dropped to 6.1 million in 2024, an exceptionally ...

HONG KONG — Marriages in China plummeted by a fifth last year, the biggest drop on record, despite manifold efforts by authorities to encourage young couples to wed and have children to increase the ...

The number of new marriages recorded in China fell to a record low last year, despite sweeping government efforts to encourage young people to tie the knot and have babies to halt demographic decline ...