{"id":10669,"date":"2025-11-11T17:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=10669"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:20:31","slug":"want-a-wedding-in-a-nightclub-a-temple-a-lake-or-a-subway-station-in-china-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=10669","title":{"rendered":"Want a wedding in a nightclub, a temple, a lake or a subway station? In China, you can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/10\/984065c8-33cb-49c3-a2a7-6f434a61bf12_065b232f.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When bank clerk Ren Yingxiao was looking for a honeymoon destination with her partner, they came across a scenic spot in the Xinjiang region in mainland China that had it all \u2013 including a marriage registration office.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cSo we thought, why not go there and get our marriage certificate as well?\u201d the 30-year-old said about secluded Sayram Lake, where authorities are trying to attract young Chinese to tie the knot as part of a nationwide push to boost marriage rates and ease the country\u2019s demographic crisis.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In May, China began allowing couples to get married anywhere in the country, rather than at their place of residence, making the process more convenient and the event more special.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Local governments have since started scrambling for marriage tourists, setting up registration offices around scenic spots, at music festivals and even in subway stations, shopping centres and parks.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For now, the effort is working.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Marriages, which demographers use as a proxy for the country\u2019s birth rate, rose 22.5 per cent from a year earlier to 1.61 million in the third quarter of 2025, putting China on track to halt a <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">downtrend in annual nuptials<\/span>, which has gone almost uninterrupted for more than a decade.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/travel-leisure\/article\/3332171\/want-wedding-nightclub-temple-lake-or-subway-station-china-you-can?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When bank clerk Ren Yingxiao was looking for a honeymoon destination with her partner, they came across a scenic spot in the Xinjiang region in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[832,2558,4530,338,2001,9027,637],"class_list":["post-10669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-china","tag-lake","tag-nightclub","tag-station","tag-subway","tag-temple","tag-wedding","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}