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China: Communist Party calls for end to lavish weddings

Breitbart: Chinese Communist Party leader  Xi Jinping’s administration called for an end to increasingly lavish weddings in the Asian country in a decree this weekend, arguing that expensive ceremonies amount to an anathema to “socialist values.”

On Saturday, China’s ministry of civil affairs decreed at a conference on wedding reform that instead of an extravagant event, weddings must “integrate core socialist values and excellent Chinese traditional culture into the construction of marriage and family.”

Chinese officials demanded that weddings advocate “diligence and thrift, and opposes extravagance and waste.”

Asia Times reported:

In a major policy decision, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs has announced a crackdown on lavish weddings after an industry report revealed that spending on opulent ceremonies would double to 3 trillion yuan (US$440 billion) by 2021. Last year, the sector was worth 1.47 trillion yuan and is projected to rise by more than 24% in 2018, a study released by ASKCI Consulting, a market research firm based in Shenzhen, highlighted.

Even though the overall number of people getting married has fallen according to government data, the wedding industry is still booming.

Weddings must also incorporate Xi Jinping “thought,” the communist officials stressed in a statement by the ministry of civil affairs, referring to the president’s communist ideology. MORE

10 Comments on China: Communist Party calls for end to lavish weddings

  1. I have some customers who are negativly impacted by the tariffs on PRC goods, my company has a plant there etc.

    But shed not a tear for those who do business with the biggest slave state the world has ever known.

    The yankees at HQ still infurate me talking about the south as they were the ones whos ships brought the slaves and they have zero problem doing business with China

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  2. Those commie dictators can’t let their slaves be thinking too much about freedom.

    What is considered a right so common nobody gives it a second thought in most countries is a threat to the new China Emperors.

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