Database Entry: Seventy Couples [tie the knot] at a Group Wedding to Mark the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China
Forced Assimilation Promotion of interethnic marriage

Seventy Couples [tie the knot] at a Group Wedding to Mark the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China

August 07, 2019
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On August 7 [2019], the Chinese Traditional Qizi Festival, TBEA’s 30th Group Wedding was ceremoniously held on a lush field. Seventy couples from 8 ethnic groups married in this grand Chinese-style group wedding to promote changing customs, new marriages, civilized thriftiness, and health…

This stage has already had over 3500 workers of all ethnic groups have established happy families through group weddings. Furthermore, a variety of popular projects such as employee housing, physical and mental health care, and children’s education [subsidies/scholarships] also supported by the collective wedding. To build nests and attract the phoenix, [TBEA] has brought in high-level talents from inner-China allowing them to set up a family at TBEA, establish roots in Xinjiang, and contribute to Xinjiang’s economic and social development.

8月7日,正值中华民传统节日七夕节,特变电工第三十届集体婚礼在一片绿茵场上隆重举行。来自8个民族的70对新人在这场盛大的中国风集体婚礼上喜结良缘,弘扬移风易俗、婚事新办、文明节俭、健康向上的中华民族优良传统,向新中国成立70周年献礼!…

在这个平台上,已经有3500余名各族员工通过集体婚礼建立起幸福家庭

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