Pickup of the New Year | Ministry of Civil Affairs: High -priced gifts such as marriage custom reform experimental zone have been strongly curbed

A few days ago, the Central Propaganda Department launched the "China Ten Years of Ten Years · Series Theme Release". The column of the cover news "Picking the Year" will pay attention to the whole process, reporting to China's achievements and changes in the past decade.

Cover Journalist Dai Rui Shao Meng

On September 8, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a press conference on civil affairs work in the new era. Zhan Chengfu, deputy minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said at the press conference that in 2021, the two batches of civil affairs were established in the country to establish 32 wedding and custom reform experimental zones. At present, high -priced gifts such as high -priced gifts and big operations in various experimental areas have been strongly curbed.

Zhan Chengfu, deputy minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Picture source: Guoxin Office

"Marriage is a beautiful and happy thing. But since a period of time, there have been some bad phenomena in the field of marriage customs." Following ceremony, these phenomena and problems have become a heavy burden on the masses. It was originally a happy event, which was blocked and criticized by society. The people are looking forward to reforming these bad phenomena in the field of marriage and turning social atmosphere. Since 2018, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has incorporated marriage custom reform into an important agenda, and in April and September 2021, two batches have established 32 marriage customs reform experimental zones across the country. The experimental area of ​​some local wedding customs was determined.

Zhan Chengfu said that he was governing bad habits such as high -priced color gifts. Some experimental areas have increased the publicity of bad habits such as high -priced gifts and big operations such as high -priced gifts and big exercises through cases. Provide services; others are specified through village regulations and civil conventions.

He pointed out that from the perspective of civil affairs work, there are still many jobs to do in terms of marriage reform. For example, in the past two years, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has implemented a "cross -province" for marriage registration and piloting the reform in seven provinces. In the next step, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will actively promote the scope of the pilot scope of the "cross -provincial general management" of the marriage registration, so that more people will benefit. Strengthen the construction of marriage registration facilities and equipment, especially to continuously improve the level of marriage registration information, and electronic the marriage registration information data since the founding of the People's Republic of China as soon as possible, and continuously expand the scope of pilot.

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