When mainland residents get married, both men and women should go to the marriage registration office where one of them has a permanent residence.

Mainland residents applying for marriage registration shall produce the following documents and supporting materials:

(1) My household registration book and ID card;

(2) A signed statement that I have no spouse and no direct blood relationship with the other party and collateral blood relationship within three generations. (unit or neighborhood Committee)

In any of the following circumstances, the marriage registration authority shall not register the marriage:

Below the legal age for marriage;

(2) Involuntary;

(3) One or both parties have spouses;

(4) Belonging to lineal blood relatives or collateral blood relatives within three generations;

(five) suffering from diseases that are medically considered unsuitable for marriage.