Interpretation of the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China (New) on Several Issues Concerning the Application of the New Marriage Law Chapter II Marriage Article 5 Marriage must be completely voluntary, and neither party is allowed to force the other or any third party to interfere.
 Article 6 The age of marriage shall not be earlier than 22 for men and 20 for women. Late marriage and late childbirth should be encouraged. So the answer is that men need to be 22 years old as indicated on their ID cards, and women need to be 20 years old as indicated on their ID cards. Huang Xihua, a deputy to the National People's Congress, believes that the provisions of the Marriage Law on "the age of marriage should not be earlier than 22 for men and 20 for women" should be revised, and suggests that the legal age of marriage should be reduced to 18 years old. But this is just a proposal, and we can only wait and see when it will be passed.