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China Daily | Updated: 2017-07-20 07:10
Beijing
1.39m divorce cases handled last year
About 1.39 million divorce cases were adjudicated by courts across China in 2016, Zhou Qiang, head of the Supreme People's Court, said at a meeting on trials involving domestic affairs on Wednesday. The divorces affected nearly 10 million people and represented the majority of the 1.75 million domestic affairs cases in the country last year, Zhou said. Also, a total of 1,284 protective orders have been issued to protect the rights of women, minors and the elderly since March 1, 2016, when the law against domestic violence took effect.
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