Borkya
Regular Member
Xiamen is considered Chen Long's hometown though he was born in Wuhan. I think Xiamen is also where his parents live, and, it could be his hukou (household registration) as well, which means he didn't change it to Beijing where he is staying at the CBA quarters and undergoing his training with the national team.
Wonder if the married couple might decide to set up home at Beijing where he is doing his training and she her postgraduate studies.
I was actually trying to figure this out with friends. In China you need to get married where you hukou is registered, but neither of them are from Xiamen. It's quite hard to change your hukou, though with his fame I'm sure nowadays it would be easy. But like you said, he wouldn't qualify for a xiamen hukou these days. (it would have to be beijing).
But he lived and trained in Xiamen for years before he joined the national team, so he probably has houses here and and residence permit (户籍)so that's how he was able to get married in Xiamen
We are all feeling a lot of Xiamen pride here because of their marriage. It's a great city, one of the top ones in China and probably THE best city for badminton in the entire country of china (based on the level of the amateur players as a Xiamen team or Xiamen players tend to win most major nationwide competitions). So we are quite happy he was able to get married here. Although no one knew he had such a strong legal connection to the city.