An unprecedented 100,000 Guangdong Province residents were divorced last year.
The figure represents an increase of 33,754 people, or 52.6 per cent, over figures from 2003, according to sources from the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Civil Affairs.
Both the number of divorcees and the rate of increase have broken records in the province’s history.
And it was women who were more active in divorce proceedings last year – making up 70 per cent of cases filed, said an official in charge of marriage and divorce registration yesterday.
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