A 13-year-old girl in southern China was ordered to go back to school after generating an online buzz for getting married to a 17-year-old boy.
The teenagers were wedded in a formal ceremony based on local customs last week after developing a romantic relationship for over a year, the Guiyu township government in Shantou, Guangdong province, said in a statement over the weekend.
They planned to get official marriage registration when they were old enough, as many child couples do in rural China. By Chinese law, a man has to be at least 22 years old to get married and a woman at least 20.
We didn’t know [it was illegal]. We have now let them take the girl home, to go back to school
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Nov 30, 2020