調查：中國人結婚費用平均逾12萬

Weddings are so important in China that couples are willing to fork out about 20 times their monthly income on getting hitched and everything that comes with it.

China's newly-weds in urban areas spend 126,600 yuan (16,600 U.S. dollars) on average in 2006 when getting hitched, Thursday's Chongqing Youth Daily reported, citing a recent survey by the Ministry of Commerce.

An analysis of 60,000 couples living in cities showed that about 64 percent of the spending went on apartment decoration, furniture and household appliances and the rest was spent on the wedding, such as the ceremony, photography, wedding dresses and feast.

The survey said the wedding expenditure was only a small share of the overall marriage cost as most Chinese young couples in the cities tended to buy an apartment and a car before tying the knot.

The survey said that about 81.6 percent of the newly-weds admitted that they had got financial support from parents as their monthly income on average was only about 6,240 yuan.

The survey also showed that about 88.4 percent of the newly-weds chose having wedding photography as a priority and 78.74 chose hosting a wedding banquet.

In contrast, young couples in rural areas spent about 40,000 yuan on average on marriage-related issues, less than one third of their city peers, according to the report.

About 8.49 million couples got married in China in 2006.

結婚在中國是件大事，因此，中國的新人們不惜花費約相當于月收入20倍的“重金”來置辦婚禮。

據《重慶青年報》上周四消息，商務部近日的一項調查顯示，2006年，中國城鎮地區新人的結婚開支平均為12.66萬元。

通過對城鎮地區6萬對新人的調查發現，約64%的結婚費用花在裝修新房、購置家具和家用電器上，其余的則花在舉辦婚禮上，如婚禮策劃、婚紗照、婚紗禮服及喜宴等。

調查顯示，婚禮支出只是結婚總花銷的一小部分，因為城市地區的大多數新人在結婚前還要買房買車。

約81.6%的新人坦稱得到了父母的財力支持。據調查，這些新人的平均月收入僅為6240元。

此外，約88.4％的新人認為拍婚紗照最重要，78.74％的新人則首選辦喜宴。

而農村地區新人的平均結婚費用約為四萬元，不到城市地區的三分之一。

2006年我國登記結婚人數約為849萬對。