New couples line up to apply for marriage certificates at a marriage registration office in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province on December 18, or the twenty-eighth day of the tenth month of this year according to the Chinese lunar calendar, both believed to be lucky numbers. The number of marriage registrations on Monday was expected to surpass 2,500 in Nanjing alone. [newsphoto]

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