China, Vietnam agree to build community with shared future that carries strategic significance

[World Times] A couple pose for photos with their marriage certificates at a marriage registration office in Shijiazhuang, north China’s Hebei Province, Aug. 22, 2023. Many couples chose to get married on Tuesday, which is the traditional Qixi Festival, or the Chinese Valentine’s Day.(Photo: Xinhua) Chinese population registering for their first marriages dropped to bellow 11 million for the first time in 2022, a 55.9 percent decreaseWorld Times from the peak of 23.85 million in 2013 over the consecutive past nine years. Experts think it’s a comprehensive result from the decrease of young people of marriageable ages and some people’s waning desire to get married.According to China Statistical Yearbook 2023 published by the National Bureau of Statistics, 10.51 million people registered their first marriage in 2022, a decrease of 1.06…