Ministry of Education issued the new Management Regulation for Students in General Universities and Colleges on Mar. 29. One change was the restriction on university students' marriage has been removed from the former regulation. The new regulation will replace the 15-year-old regulation, and go into effect from Sep. 1st this year.

According to the 30th clause in the former Management Regulation for Students in General Universities and Colleges , students who get married without permission and have not gone through formality for leaving school, should be ordered to quit school. This clause has been removed from the new regulation.

Official with the Student Department under Ministry of Education reiterated that the lift of the restriction does not mean the new regulation advocates university students to get married. Student must at least meet the requirements of legal age and preconditions prescribed in Marriage Law and Marriage Registration Regulation. The reason why the new regulation does not touch on the issue of marriage is that getting married is a kind of right and freedom of adults laid down in Marriage Law and Marriage Registration Regulation.

However, from the perspective of educational departments and universities, the recognition and the advocation of students' marriage are totally different. For most of the university students, they do not have basis or even preparation for getting married, nor do they have any economic basis. "By taking all these factors into consideration, anyway, we are not for university students to get married," added the official.

By People's Daily Online