China is collecting and unifying its marriage registration
information, vowing to put it online for public supervision,
according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA).
"Making marriage information available to the public can
effectively prevent repeated registration and bigamy," said Pan
Jisheng, the head of the MCA archives.
The MCA last week issued a regulation on the handling of
marriage registration records, to unify the formerly separate
records kept by local departments.
The new rule dictates that the recording term for marriage
registration will be a hundred years and after expiration, the
managing personnel will evaluate those records to decide whether to
go on keeping them.
(Xinhua News Agency February 7, 2006)
