Students learn a lesson on married life

Tying the knot as an undergraduate has been legal for 10 years in China, but this has brought a series of challenges, report Zhao Xinying in Beijing and Tan Yingzi in Chongqing

Fan Jingyu, a junior student at Xi'an International Studies University in Shaanxi province, married her boyfriend in 2013. Just eight years earlier, it would have been impossible for undergraduates towed.

Until 2005, Chinese undergraduates were not allowed by law to marry while studying at university. Ministry of Education regulations at the time stipulated that if they decided to marry, they had to quit college.