New rules help save marriages in city in Zhejiang

Getting a divorce in Zhejiang province's Cixi is not as simple as signing paperwork anymore.

Now it also requires an appointment a week ahead of time with the civil affairs bureau's marriage registration office.

"We were saving about 40 percent of marriages during the three-month trial after the policy was introduced in April," said Xu Haiyan, director of the Cixi civil affairs bureau's marriage registration office.