From CRIEnglish via Xinhua:
More than 170,000 couples married in Beijing in 2006, up 77 percent over 2005, a year witnessing the most weddings in the past 25 years.
Beijing Evening News reports the Beijing administrative office of marriage says the annual number of weddings totaled only 70,000 to 120,000 in the past five years.
The wedding peak in 1981, in which year more than 200,000 couples married, ushered in the birth peak in the 1980s. The generation born in the 1980s is now reaching legal age for marriage in recent years….[Full Text]
