The clothing hangs on the laundry lines as a woman walks past residential buildings in Wuhan, China, on June 14, 2017.
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BEIJING – A Chinese court has ruled in a divorce case that a wife should receive about 50,000 Chinese yuan ($ 7,700) from her husband as compensation for five years of domestic work.
The ruling sparked an online debate this week on whether it was a fair price.
That’s about $ 128 a month, or a little over $ 1,500 a year. In Chinese currency terms, the payment is about 10,000 yuan a year.
China said the poorest earned an average of 9,808 yuan per person per year in 2019. This figure rises from 3,416 yuan in 2015.
In this case, raised in Fangshan District in southwest Beijing, the wife’s household work was calculated for the value of the intangible property, Judge Feng Miao told state media, according to a report on Monday.
It was not clear immediately when the judgment was handed down. But it was the first such decision to refer to new provisions in China’s civil code, which came into force in January.