Chinese government promotes ”legal reform” to make marriage easier and divorce harder

The Chinese government is promoting the revision of related laws to make it easier to register marriages and more difficult to accept divorces. On the 15th, according to local media such as China News, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of China recently
The government announced a draft amendment to the marriage registration ordinance on its website, saying that it would "solicit opinions until the 11th of next month." The difference with the current ordinance is that it will no longer be obligated to submit a resident registration when filing for marriage or divorce.
In addition, a 30-day reflection period is now required for divorce. If one of the parties does not want to divorce within 30 days of the marriage registration office receiving the divorce application,
The changes to the law come as the government encourages young people to get married and have children at a time when China's population has declined for two consecutive years.
In response to this, a Chinese netizen wrote on the Chinese version of Twitter, "It's easy to get married, but hard to get divorced. It's a completely ridiculous law."
He posted it on Weibo, where it received tens of thousands of likes.