Data runs on behalf of people, and the trial of "cross-provincial operation" of marriage registration solves the people's "emergency and worry"
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 19 -
Title: data generation run, marriage registration "inter-provincial office through" pilot solution masses "trouble worry hope."
Xinhua News Agency reporters Gao Lei and Sun Shaolong
Marriage is a major event in life.
As an important part of the process of confirming the marriage relationship, the requirement that marriage registration must be handled in the domicile of one party has caused great inconvenience to many people who go out to work, live, and study for many years.
The good news is here.
Recently, the State Council issued the "Approval on Approving the Pilot Program of Cross-provincial Administration of Marriage Registration for Mainland Residents in Certain Areas", and decided to implement the pilot "cross-provincial administration" of marriage registration and divorce registration in Liaoning, Shandong, Guangdong, Chongqing, and Sichuan. In Jiangsu, Henan, Wuhan, Hubei, and Xi’an, Shaanxi, the trial of "cross-provincial administration" of marriage registration was implemented.
The trial period is 2 years, from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2023.
On May 19th, the Ministry of Civil Affairs held a video conference for the trial work of "cross-provincial communication" of marriage registration. The "cross-provincial communication" of marriage registration will enter the implementation stage, and the current marriage registration system will usher in a major reform.
According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, after the launch of the trial work of "cross-provincial administration" of marriage registration, both men and women can register their marriages not only in one of the household registration places, but also in the pilot areas if one party usually resides in the pilot area.
The place of habitual residence generally refers to the place where the citizen has left the place of household registration and has lived continuously for more than half a year. The main basis of the marriage registration agency is to see whether they hold a valid residence permit.
Residence "dragging card": Let public services go with others
Ms. Zhang from Inner Mongolia and Mr. Wang from Qingdao, Shandong have worked and lived in Nanjing, Jiangsu for many years.
A few years ago, the two decided to get a license to get married, but because they did not move their household registration to Nanjing at that time, they had to go back to Mr. Wang's hometown to go through the marriage registration procedures.
According to Mr. Wang, it takes about 6 hours to take a train from Nanjing to Qingdao one way. The high-speed rail ticket plus other expenses on the road will cost nearly 2,000 yuan for a round trip. He also asked his unit for 3 days of leave.
There are not a few people who "run for love" like Mr. Wang.
According to the "Regulations on Marriage Registration" promulgated in 2003, if mainland residents get married voluntarily, both the man and the woman should go to the marriage registration office where one party's permanent residence is registered for marriage registration.
Although the formulation of this rule is based on considerations at the time, with the formation of "mobile China", there are many inconveniences for the people who are outside all the year round.
Marriage registration is an important livelihood matter of public and social concern, and it is also a basic public service that directly faces the public and has a greater social impact.
According to data from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the current marriage registration agencies across the country handle an average of about 10 million marriage registrations, nearly 4 million divorce registrations, and 4 million replacement marriage registration certificates each year, directly serving nearly 40 million people.
In contrast, the current situation of my country's population flow is becoming more frequent.
Data from the seventh national census shows that in 2020, there will be 493 million people in my country in a state of "separation of households and households."
What's more noteworthy is that people aged 15 to 35 in the floating population account for more than 70% of the total.
Most of these personnel are those who go out to work and find jobs, do business and set up enterprises, and go to school to join the military, and marriageable personnel account for an absolute proportion.
According to the current laws and regulations, the return of the migrant group to the hometown for marriage registration will inevitably incur relatively large time, manpower, material resources and economic costs.
"Marriage registration is a basic public service. Covering the permanent population is an inevitable trend of social development." Ma Chunhua, Director of the Research Office of Gender and Family Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said, "Marriage registration is a pilot project of'cross-provincial operation' It is oriented to solve the actual difficulties of the masses and meet the urgent needs of the masses. It is exactly what is needed and the time is right."
Rising to the Difficulties: A long-awaited pilot
"The management systems of modern society are interlocking and affect the whole body." According to Wei Shaoling, a lawyer specializing in marriage and family in Beijing Jingshi Law Firm, on the surface, the trial has increased the choice of marriage registration place, but behind the scenes However, it involves many factors such as the increased difficulty of party information verification, business process reengineering, and equalization of public services, making reforms more difficult.
"It should also be noted that the pilot has broken through the relevant provisions of the current "Regulations on Marriage Registration." From the perspective of maintaining the authority and stability of the law, it needs to be cautious." Wei Shaoling said.
In Wei Shaoling’s view, "the people have what they call, I have something to do" is what it means to build a service-oriented government, but to effectively solve the people’s "difficult and worries" and to do good things well, it takes a long time and many aspects of accumulation. ready.
In fact, it is not a day's work to carry out the trial of "cross-provincial operation" of marriage registration.
In recent years, the Party Central Committee and the State Council have issued a series of documents to deepen the reform of "delegating power, delegating power, and servicing", focusing on transforming government functions, streamlining administration and delegating power, optimizing services, and creating a service-oriented government.
As a reform of "delegation, regulation, and service" in the field of people's livelihood, marriage registration "cross-provincial operation" has also been intensively prepared.
In the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for Promoting Equalization of Basic Public Services" issued by the State Council in 2017, it was proposed to explore and carry out marriage registration work in different places.
In 2020, the General Office of the State Council also issued guidelines to include the "cross-provincial administration" of marriage registration in the national high-frequency government service "inter-provincial administration" list.
Recently, the State Council approved the launch of a trial of "cross-provincial administration" of marriage registration.
At the same time, the conditions for the implementation of "cross-provincial access to marriage registration" have also matured.
On the one hand, through the unremitting efforts of civil affairs departments and marriage registration agencies, the marriage registration information management system has now achieved a national network. The Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, the Supreme People’s Court and other departments have achieved positive results in information sharing, and the level of intelligence in marriage registration has been continuously improved. All of these have provided the basis for information construction for the "cross-provincial administration".
On the other hand, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, in conjunction with the National Development and Reform Commission, the People’s Bank and other 30 departments, jointly issued a document to fully implement a personal credit risk notification system during the marriage registration process, and increase the deliberate concealment, fabrication of facts, and fraud in the marriage registration process. The intensity of punishment for dishonest acts such as registration.
The exploration of marriage registration implemented in some localities by "universal registration within the city" and "universal registration within the province" has also accumulated effective experience for this pilot.
Since 2016, under the guidance and support of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, 16 districted cities in Shenyang, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Shandong have successively carried out pilot projects for inter-city operations.
On September 25, 2020, with the authorization of the State Council, the Ministry of Civil Affairs supported Zhejiang Province to carry out the trial of "providing the marriage registration in the province".
"Marriage registration'cross-provincial connection' is a relatively complex system project. Overall, the preliminary work has achieved the expected results and accumulated experience, laying a solid foundation for the implementation of this pilot." China Law Society Marriage and Family Xia Yinlan, president of the Law Research Association, said.
Innovation for the people: Seeking a win-win situation between convenience and order
In Ma Chunhua's view, the challenges that the trial implementation will bring to marriage registration agencies are predictable.
On the one hand, at present, the staffing and working places of marriage registration agencies nationwide are mainly determined based on the local household registration population and annual registration volume.
The pilot program will break the existing balance of public resource allocation.
For first- and second-tier cities with a large number of migrants and migrants, the number of people who register marriages on the spot may increase sharply, and the carrying capacity of these local marriage registration agencies will be tested.
On the other hand, marriage registration "cross-provincial administration" involves many links, complex practical problems, and great differences in local work. To achieve "inter-provincial administration", the cooperation and running-in of local civil affairs departments are required, and the coordination of relevant government departments is needed. Cooperate.
"As a government department that administratively confirms the conclusion or dissolution of a marriage relationship, the marriage registration authority must provide detailed services to meet the marriage registration needs of the permanent population, while ensuring the order of marriage registration and maintaining the sanctity and seriousness of marriage. "Xia Yinlan pointed out, "This requires a win-win situation between convenience and order."
In Xia Yinlan's view, the marriage and family system is the cornerstone of society, and it is in everyone's interest to maintain the stability and order of the marriage registration system.
The pilot work not only requires the participation and support of the parties involved in marriage registration, timely understanding of the content and requirements of the “inter-provincial communication”, and the joint participation and support of the whole society, and an open and tolerant attitude towards problems that may arise in the pilot work. Put forward some constructive opinions and suggestions to avoid detours in the pilot work.
Based on this consideration, the Ministry of Civil Affairs chose Liaoning, Shandong, Guangdong and other places with relatively mature conditions as pilot projects.
"For reforms that must be promoted, adopting a pilot-first approach, finding laws and building consensus, is itself a manifestation of the modernization of national governance capabilities." Ma Chunhua said.
Ma Chunhua believes that it is necessary to give full play to the role of pilot areas in the first trial, through the trial in how to adapt to changes in the service population, how to rationally and effectively measure and allocate service resources, and effectively meet the service needs of the masses, continue to explore paths, summarize experience, and promote as soon as possible. Form a batch of reproducible and extendable policy measures and institutional mechanisms, explore feasible paths for the implementation of "cross-provincial administration" of marriage registration across the country, and accumulate practical experience for the revision and improvement of the "Regulations on Marriage Registration."