Divorce: Why the big breakup in China?
Beijing, China (CNN)
But the times are changing in modern China. The economic miracle that followed the countryu's opening to the outside world after 1979 has dramatically changed social mores ---and getting divorced no longer carries the stigma it once did.
In today's China, some 4,500 couples split up every day. More than 2.46 million couples divorced in the country last year -- nearly twice the number in 2001.