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China on track to post its lowest number of marriage registrations since 1980 this year .
In the first nine months of the year , 4.75 million couples registered a marriage, representing a 16.6 per cent drop compared to the same period in 2023 .
Only 1.32 million marriages were registered in the third quarter , with the figure dropping by more than 25 per cent from a year earlier .
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