The central government has enabled information sharing of marriages registered both in China and abroad in its latest effort to improve the accuracy of verifying citizen's marital¹ status and effectively prevent bigamy.

 

中国政府已经启用国内外婚姻登记信息共享服务，提高验证公民婚姻状态的准确性并有效防止重婚。

 

The Ministry² of Foreign Affairs will push information of marriages registered at China's embassies and consulates³ in other countries to the national database for marriage registration⁴ run by the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA), the MCA said in a statement.

 

Both the MCA, which is in charge of domestic marriage registration, and Chinese embassies and consulates can now access the national database to verify the current marital status of applicants⁵ registering a marriage.

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