Overseas Marriage up 7 Times in Shanghai

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Overseas Marriage up 7 Times in Shanghai

The number of international marriages in Shanghai has increased to almost seven times the figure from 1980, according to a local study.

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The number of international marriages in Shanghai has increased to almost seven times the figure from 1980, according to a local study.

Monday's China Daily quoted a study conducted since last year jointly by the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau and the prestigious East China Normal University as saying that the number of locally registered international marriages has jumped from fewer than 400 in 1980 to 2,705 last year.

"The increase on the whole ties in well with Shanghai's continuous opening-up to the outside world, as well as with increasing cross-cultural communication," said Ding Jinhong, director of the university's Population Research Institute.

In a report published in late May, the study authors said that more than 40 percent of the 21,015 mixed marriages registered in the city between 1996 and 2002.

Among the foreign partners, Japanese made up for about 40 percent overall, overseas Chinese and those from Hong Kong, Macao or Taiwan made up for nearly 38 percent, while people from the United States accounted for 6.3 percent, Australians for 5.4 percent and Europeans for 3.9 percent.

Nearly 89 percent of international marriages in Shanghai municipality registered between 1996 and 2002 involved local womenwhose average age was 31.

The average age of the more than 2,330 local men involved in the international marriages between 1996 and 2002 was 36.7 years.

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