On March 20, netizens left a message on People's Daily Online to the secretary of Zhengning County Party Committee in Qingyang City, Gansu Province, saying, can we rectify the high bride price? After talking about the object for several years, I reached the point of talking about marriage, but I was forced to break up because of the bride price of nearly 300,000. It is common to ask local people about the high bride price in Gansu. I hope to correct this trend.
The Zhengning County Party Committee Office replied on April 7 that it had received news from People's Daily Online. In recent years, we have attached great importance to the issue of sky-high bride price, held many meetings to conduct special research on the issue of wedding bride price, and formulated and promulgated a series of documents and intervention policies and measures, with a clear-cut stand and a clear sword against such bad habits as sky-high bride price.
The first is to introduce the standard "limit". The implementation plan of "resisting high-priced bride price in Zhengning County, advocating changing customs and establishing a new civilized style" and the implementation opinions of Zhengning County on further strengthening the management of high-priced bride price and promoting changing customs have been formulated and promulgated, clearly stipulating that the bride price in rural areas should not exceed 80,000 yuan, and the bride price for public officials should not exceed 60,000 yuan.
The second is publicity and education. The news media in the county set up a publicity column of "changing customs and promoting the new style of the times" in time, published advanced models, experiences and practices, publicity information, proposals and work results, carried out publicity on changing customs and customs at multiple levels and from multiple angles, and created a clean and upright public opinion atmosphere for weddings and funerals.
The third is to standardize the "management" of matchmaking. Zhengning County's "Red Line" matchmaking agency and matchmaking management association were established, collecting information of unmarried men and women of appropriate age according to laws and regulations, establishing a database of unmarried youth, carrying out registration and filing of professional matchmaking personnel, strengthening the training of professional matchmaking personnel, signing a letter of commitment on professional ethics, organizing collective weddings, theme signatures, youth clubs and other activities, and achieving good social effects.
The fourth is the key ethnic minority "belt". Formulated and promulgated the "Regulations on the Wedding, Funeral and Celebration of Cadres in party member, Zhengning County", established and strictly implemented the reporting system of cadres' weddings and funerals in party member, and consciously accepted the supervision of the masses. We will continue to carry out advanced typical selection activities such as "Good people around us", "Good people in Qingyang", "Most beautiful people" and moral models, and guide the masses to learn from the mortal charity of typical people, consciously abide by the law, respect the old and love the young, and properly handle neighborhood relations.
The fifth is to "govern" according to law. All 94 administrative villages in the county have established mass autonomous organizations such as the Red and White Council, established and improved relevant systems, and incorporated the "height limit" standard of bride price into village rules and regulations on the basis of fully respecting the wishes of the masses. At the same time, the establishment of a red and black list to change customs, promote frugality and other positive examples, expose high bride price and other bad phenomena, and win wide public support.
The Zhengning County Party Committee Office said that although we have done a lot of work in managing the sky-high bride price, managing the sky-high bride price is a long and complicated process, which is difficult to grasp with hard rules and requires long-term educational guidance and the participation of the whole society. In the future work, we will continue to improve the rural governance system that combines autonomy, rule of law and rule of virtue, adhere to the combination of "soft measures" and "hard measures", and guide school-age youth and their families to refer to the relevant documents such as the Implementation Opinions of Zhengning County on Further Strengthening the Governance of High-priced Bridal Gifts to Promote the Change of Customs, and actively participate in changing customs, practicing economy, abandoning stereotypes and promoting new civilized customs with practical actions.