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The share of people getting married in China is falling, and the divorce rate is rising—two trends that are worrying not only Chinese parents, but also officials. Last year, over four million couples divorced—a 8.3% increase compared with 2015, according to recent data (link in Chinese) from China’s ministry of civil affairs. Meanwhile, China also saw marriages continue to decline, with 11.4 million couples getting married in 2016—around 800,000 fewer than the previous year. China is trying to campaign against both trends, worried that an aging population, and large numbers of single men thanks to a skewed sex ratio, could harm social stability. In December, China’s president Xi Jinping called family “ an important foundation” for social harmony. Last year (link in Chinese), China’s Supreme Court recommended trial reforms for divorce proceedings. It urged courts to distinguish between “marital crisis” and “marital death,” and to try resolve the former in order to “promote a healthy and harmonious” society (link in Chinese). The Supreme Court has selected 118 local courts to pilot the changes, which include requiring “cooling-off” periods, according to Jiang Xinru, a judge in charge of family-related cases from Anyue county of China’s southwestern Sichuan province. In March, the Anyue court issued the province’s first (link in Chinese) three-month long “cooling-off period” court order. Judge Jiang has argued the pilot program is necessary because millions of divorces every year could lead to many social problems, such as juvenile crimes and “left-behind” elderly people .
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