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May 26, 2022
Basic adoption procedures for foreigners in China
At present there are 17 countries that have established cooperative relationship with China in inter-country adoption.
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May 25, 2022
Courts throughout nation harden their resolve to tackle domestic disputes
Chinese courts have strengthened their efforts to hear domestic disputes in recent years and have used different ways to handle them, with the number of such cases remaining high.
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May 25, 2022Survey: More overseas Chinese prefer prenup agreements
Contrary to the notion that most Chinese people are unwilling to sign prenuptial agreements, more overseas Chinese are showing a positive attitude toward the pacts, a recent survey found.
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May 25, 2022Cooling-off rule leads to big decline in divorce rate
After 17 years of growth, China's divorce rate has registered a precipitous decline. About 966,000 couples divorced in the first half of this year, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. That is a nearly 40 percent decline year-on-year or a 52 percent plunge compared with the same period in 2019.
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May 25, 2022
China's orphan population declines by 66 percent
The number of orphans dipped 66 percent between 2012 and 2019, from about 570,000 to 190,000, a Ministry of Civil Affairs official said Tuesday.
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May 25, 2022
3-child policy proposed as society ages
A key meeting of the Communist Party of China unveiled on Monday a policy that would allow all couples to have up to three children, in place of the current universal two-child policy, in a bid to cope with an increasingly aging society. It also pledged stronger support for families.
