• After the establishment of the new marriage law, it now takes the marriage registration office about an hour or so to review the submitted documents and approve of the application.
• Head to the Marriage Registration Office and apply for your marriage license. Its important to note that a Chinese national must get married wherever his or her hukou was issued, so youll need to find out where the appropriate marriage office is based on your partners hukou.
• The Beijing Marriage Registration Office is at 20 Gongti Donglu. Take your certificate of marriageability, three formal pictures of you and your loved one together, your IDs, and your Chinese partners hukou, and all thats left is to answer a few questions and fill out a few forms at the marriage office. Marriage licenses are typically issued on the same day, so you should have your marriage license in hand when you leave the office.
• Once the marriage registration office approves of the application and registers the marriage, it will issue a marriage certificate to be picked up by the couple.

• Single Status Certificates
• Birth certificates
• Household registration book (hukou)
• Passports
• Foreigner: Notarised translations in Chinese of all originals not in Chinese (except the passport.
  

There are official translators who provide this service in China

Marriage Registration Office ?????????????
Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau
Add: Ground floor, No. 20 Gongren Tiyuchang Donglu, Chaoyang District ???????????20?1??
Telephone : 010-6586 6660, 010-6539 5015, 010-6539 5016
Business hours: 9:00-11:30 a.m. and 1:30-5:00 Mondays through Fridays; Saturdays, 9:00-11:30 a.m. only;
closed on Chinese holidays.

People's Republic of China Ministry of Civil Affairs
Address: 147 Main Street,
Dongcheng District, No. Beiheyan

The persons marrying must reach the required minimum age: for men that is 22 years and for women 20 years old, except that persons may marry younger with parental permission. Persons must not be married to another person who already has a husband or wife: having more than one husband or wife in any country is not permitted under Chinese law. Only a male and a female, not two persons of the same gender, can get married here.

Explain the fees structure which is required for obtaining the certificate/document.

Marriage certificate remains valid until in the event of death or divorce

Application form

Please attach sample completed documents that would help other people.

Marriage certificates are usually issued on the same day the registration takes place.

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You should obtain the forms and complete them in advance. So then you can attend the Civil Affairs Bureau and in some cities you will have a special section for ' marriages' - and submit the application.

• Your name
• Sex
• Date and place of birth
• Nationality
• Personal identification document number
• Marital status (never married or divorced or widowed)
• The name of your fiance/fianc

This is handled by municipal Civil Affairs Bureau (Minzheng Ju ???). Normally, you will have to go to the office in the jurisdiction in which the Chinese partner is registered on her or his hukou (??) though there are a few reports that couples have been able to marry in an office local to where the Chinese partner is living. It is in the nature of the Chinese system that there can be such variations in the implementation of the rules, so it is always worth checking on procedures when you visit to collect an application form.

Marriages in China are administered by the marriage registration office of the local civil affairs bureau, (???Min Zheng Ju) in each jurisdiction.
Persons planning to marry should visit or call one of these offices for specific information. The appropriate civil affairs office will be the one in the jurisdiction in which the Chinese citizen is registered (the location of their ??hukou).

Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/QA/all_questions/t1068433.htm
http://beijing.usembassy-china.org.cn/acs_married.html
http://www.shanghai.china.embassy.gov.au/shai/marriage2.html
http://english.gov.cn/service/marriage.htm

The legitimate rights and interests of parties having gone through marriage registration according to law shall be protected by law.
Parties applying for marriage registration shall truthfully provide to marriage registration authorities relevant certificates and documents stipulated in these Regulations and shall not conceal the truth.
In handling marriage registration, marriage registration authorities shall not require applicants to provide any certificate and document not stipulated in these Regulations.