Curb high-priced betrothal gifts, vulgar weddings and other vulgar customs
Hebei will carry out the reform of marriage customs in an all-round way
Newspaper, Shijiazhuang, February 1st (Reporter Shi Ziqiang) Recently, ten departments including the Civil Affairs Department of Hebei Province and the Civilization Office of Hebei Province jointly issued the "Opinions on Comprehensively Implementing the Reform of Marriage Customs", proposing to comprehensively strengthen the construction of family, family education and family style. Continuously optimize marriage management services. Through policy guidance, departmental cooperation, public participation, and interaction with laws and rituals, by 2025, the province's marriage and family counseling services will become regular With effective containment, the burden of expenses such as favors, banquets, and betrothal gifts has been significantly reduced, and the whole society has presented a new style of healthy, civilized, simple and moderate wedding customs.
According to the opinions, all parts of Hebei will focus on cultivating a civilized and progressive marriage custom culture, publicize marriage laws and regulations, strengthen marriage custom culture research, and strengthen the cultural construction of marriage registration sites. By 2025, more than 50% of marriage registration agencies will set up marriage custom culture walls (corridors).
At the same time, vigorously promote frugal handling of marriage matters, explore and formulate restrictive measures, innovate and develop wedding services, solidly carry out special rectifications to eliminate unhealthy marriage customs, establish and improve long-term mechanisms, and create a good social atmosphere.
The province will combine government purchase services with voluntary services, and combine full-time staff with marriage agencies and caring people to build a multi-dimensional marriage service platform and provide public welfare marriage and dating services.
Relying on vocational skills training institutions, labor export agreement institutions and business incubation bases, we will provide employment and entrepreneurship assistance to older unmarried youths in rural areas who have skills training, labor export desires, entrepreneurial intentions, and training needs.
In addition, we will carry out in-depth activities to introduce good family traditions, good family education, and good family training into families, communities, villages, campuses, and enterprises, so as to give full play to the leading role of typical models and continue to inherit good family traditions and family education.
It is understood that all parts of Hebei will establish and improve leading groups and working mechanisms for the reform of marriage customs, strengthen departmental cooperation, implement work responsibilities, and work together to promote the reform of marriage customs.
Strengthen policy guidance and organizational coordination for the reform of marriage customs, guide and encourage some counties, townships, and villages to try first and boldly innovate.
All localities will make use of the guiding role of the news media to widely publicize the relevant policies, vivid practices and advanced models of marriage custom reform, and create a good social atmosphere.
Regularly or irregularly inspect and supervise the promotion of marriage custom reform to ensure that the marriage custom reform is carried out in the right direction.