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The number of registered cross-border marriages in China has been flourishing year by year
Time:2025-08-28 Views:1230
With the deepening of China's opening up to the outside world, the world is gradually understanding China, and Chinese people are also gradually understanding the opposite sex in the world. They have entered our lives, and some have even become a part of our lives. As a result, some Chinese people have crossed the seas and married foreign men or foreign girls. Since the early 1980s, the number of registered cross-border marriages in China has been thriving year by year. In 1982, the number of cross-border marriage registrations in China was 14193, but by 1997 it had reached 50773, involving 53 countries and regions.
While people marvel at these shocking yet unfinished moments, they overlook the ups and downs, joys, and pains behind the story. Due to cultural differences in marriage concepts and different purposes of starting a family, a series of tragicomedy plays have been performed in marriage. Cross border marriage is not as romantic or sweet as we imagine. Couples from different countries warn us that, like any marriage, cross-border marriage is not just about loving each other.
Japanese men are most willing to marry Chinese women
As Chinese people gradually move towards the world, the number of Chinese living in Japan for the purpose of work, study and life is gradually increasing. Among these Chinese, some women married Japanese. A statistical data released by the Japanese government shows that as Japan's internationalization level increases, international marriage is also growing day by day, especially with more and more Japanese men marrying foreign women, with the highest proportion marrying Chinese women.
With Japan's population growth rate decreasing year by year, it is now difficult for the average Japanese man in his 40s to find a Japanese woman in his twenties or thirties as a wife. This is because Japanese women nowadays demand a higher standard of living, and the economic conditions of the average Japanese man in his 40s often fall short of their expectations. So, the best way for these Japanese men to quickly solve their loneliness of being single is to shift their goal of seeking a spouse overseas. Generally, Japanese people think that Chinese people look very similar to Japanese people, have little difference in diet, use chopsticks, and can write Chinese characters.
Marriage between China and Australia is warm but not hot. Australia and China are two countries on Earth, one south and one north, with very different cultural backgrounds, but the number of marriages between the two countries has always been high. In addition to favorable factors such as economic attraction and cultural curiosity, there are also many difficulties and misunderstandings. Despite the annual development of exchanges between China and Australia, there has not been a sudden increase or decrease in marriage between the two countries. In recent years, the annual increase in the proportion of marriages has not exceeded 7%, with occasional decreases. This gentle growth, on the one hand, shows that the life of Chinese people in Australia has become stable, on the other hand, it also shows that there has been no sudden change in Sino Australian marriage exchanges in recent years.
The Australian Immigration Department has always had strict control over visas for marriages between China and Australia. Firstly, they need to prove the authenticity and longevity of the marital relationship between the two parties, and this assessment does not delve into the applicant's special social environment, cultural traditions, economic status, involvement of elders in the family process, and the applicant's arrangements after marriage. Instead, it directly applies various Australian concepts, behavioral standards, and immigration policies, listing a series of conditions or standards that the applicant did not meet. So sometimes an inadvertent answer from an applicant during an interview can become one of the reasons for rejection; Sometimes, conflicts or disagreements in the applicant's marital life, even if both parties reconcile as before, can still be seized by immigration officers and become one of the important reasons for visa refusal. Starting from December 2002, Australia legislated to implement a new method for issuing marriage certificates. All spouses who wish to register for marriage can first negotiate their marriage conditions, including how to distribute property in case of divorce, how to educate their children, where to go on vacation, and even how many times a week to have sex.
Many Chinese in Sydney can't understand this, but Australians have other views on it. Professor Anderson, who is getting married at Sydney University, believes that this is very clear, and it is also a kind of mutual respect.
The divorce rate of cross-border marriages between China and Australia has remained high, and experts say the reason is related to the overall marriage culture and customs in Australia. Australia is a well-known country with poor family values, ranking among the top three in the world in terms of divorce rates among couples, with the United States being the first. 40% of Australian men over the age of 40 have a divorce record. So Australians view marriage relatively lightly.
The marriage alliance between China and Germany brings mixed feelings
The maglev train in Shanghai has opened, and Mr. Peter, an electric motor businessman from Munich, Germany, is very excited. He is well aware that the start of the maglev train project between China and Germany signifies a promising future for cooperation between the two countries in Shanghai. Personally, this will definitely help him realize his long-standing dream of finding a Chinese wife in Shanghai. There are more and more exchanges between the two countries, and Chinese girls are becoming more and more familiar with us. It's becoming easier for me to communicate with them at work, "Peter said in stiff Chinese. It is understood that there are many German young men around Mr. Peter who have this idea. [page]
Germans attach great importance to marriage and family, which is very similar to the Chinese. So they believe that they should have a certain economic foundation before getting married, otherwise the marriage will be unstable. Therefore, it is very tedious for Germans to go through the formalities of cross-border marriage. To register for marriage, the first step is to obtain all kinds of documents that can be obtained from childhood to adulthood. These documents must first be notarized by a Chinese notary public, confirmed by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and finally authenticated by the German Embassy in China before being mailed to Germany. They will be translated into German by a translation company registered in Germany and then submitted to the marriage registration office. However, it is not up to the marriage registration office the final say whether to marry or not. All documents must be sent to the German state supreme courts for the court to decide. Generally speaking, this program cannot be approved within four months. There is even a suggestion that anyone who wants to marry a German should transfer to Denmark for processing, where three days is enough. Sichuan Faneng Law Firm is dedicated to serving you.