{"id":6223,"date":"2020-04-16T07:12:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T07:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=6223"},"modified":"2020-04-16T07:17:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T07:17:52","slug":"post-corona-china-marriage-rate-very-high-in-wuhan-divorce-number-down-in-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/post-corona-china-marriage-rate-very-high-in-wuhan-divorce-number-down-in-country\/","title":{"rendered":"POST CORONA CHINA -Marriage Rate Very High in Wuhan -Divorce Number Down in Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6224\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/china-wuhan-e1587021024144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/>Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, emerged from its 76-day lockdown period last Wednesday. As the city begins to wake up from its slumber, it seems that couples are eager to celebrate the return to normalcy \u2014 by getting married in droves.<\/h3>\n<h3>Alibaba\u2019s Alipay marriage registration app saw a 300% increase in marriage application rates after the lockdown was lifted. According to Alipay\u2019s Weibo microblogging account, it even caused the system to become overloaded and freeze.<\/h3>\n<h3>The surprising surge comes after marriages in Wuhan were suspended during the months of February and March. Wuhan\u2019s city marriage registration services reopened on April 3rd.<\/h3>\n<h3>The news stands in hopeful contrast to reports of soaring\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/radiichina.com\/coronavirus-quarantine-relationships\/\">divorce rates<\/a>\u00a0in cities like Xi\u2019an, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Guangzhou, where some couples ended up with more one-on-one time than they\u2019d bargained for.<\/h3>\n<h3>Over the last few weeks, trending topics on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/radiichina.com\/tag\/weibo\">Weibo<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 one of China\u2019s biggest social media platforms \u2014 and the Quora-like Chinese Q&amp;A forum Zhihu have posed the question: \u201cWhen you get out of [coronavirus] quarantine, what will you do?\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>Without fail, one highly upvoted comment will read: \u201cImmediately divorce.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>While the comment is in most cases assumed to be a sardonic joke, during an unprecedented nationwide quarantine many Chinese couples have indeed been forced to reexamine their relationships in confinement \u2014 and to vent their feelings online.<\/h3>\n<h3>In response to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/radiichina.com\/tag\/coronavirus\/\">novel coronavirus Covid-19<\/a>\u00a0outbreak, which reached national headlines in late January, the government implemented widespread self-quarantine and enforced lockdown measures. For the past two months, most of China has been working from home \u2014 many of them, for the first time in their lives \u2014 ordering groceries to their doorstep with little human contact, and avoiding unnecessary social activities outside of their households.<\/h3>\n<h3>But as cities gradually return to their normal routine, there has been a flurry of news and discussion about divorces rates rising all over the country, leading many to speculate that there may be a post-Covid-19 divorce phenomenon waiting in the wings.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>www.radiichina.com<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, emerged from its 76-day lockdown period last Wednesday. As the city begins to wake up from its slumber, it seems that couples are eager to celebrate the return to normalcy \u2014 by getting married in droves. Alibaba\u2019s Alipay marriage registration app saw a 300% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[54,198,315,314,313],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6225,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions\/6225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}