2021-05-19 12:35:09 GMT2021-05-19 20:35:09(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhua) Chinese authorities have issued a reminder warning seniors of illegal fundraising activities in the elderly-care sector.
The reminder was jointly released by the China National Committee on Ageing, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission.
Seniors often fall victim to fraudulent fundraising activities in the name of elderly-care services, elderly-care program investments, house-for-pension schemes allowing elderly people to deed their houses for extra retirement funds, among other scams, said the document.
The reminder promises intensified efforts to hold illegal fundraisers and their accomplices accountable, and calls on elderly people and their families to remain vigilant to avoid financial losses.
1 2021-05-19 14:16:45Xinhua
Editor : Cheng Zizhuo
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China will pilot an inter-provincial marriage registration policy to save its growing migrant population from returning to their hometown to register their marriage.
The pilot program will be first introduced in Liaoning, Shandong, Guangdong, Chongqing and Sichuan, among other provincial-level regions, running from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2023, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced Wednesday.
Under China s current regulations, marriages must be registered at a marriage registry located in the place of household registration of the bride or groom.
The new policy will enable people living outside their place of household registration to register their marriage in the pilot areas where they have resided for a continuous period of at least half a year, the ministry said.
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China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs logged just 296,000 divorces in the first quarter of 2021, down from 1.06 million in 2020 and 1.05 million in 2019.
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