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Registration for weddings on August 8 opened on June 20, and will last until August 5 in registry offices as well as on the Internet, to avoid any last minute scrambles.
"More than 100 people have registered so far, which is more than usual," said Zhao Yongfu, an official at the registry office, where the Chinese characters of "double happiness" hung on the walls.
Around the country, thousands of people are also planning to get married on August 8, with China's press carrying countless articles on the phenomenon.
Zhang and Ma's special day also carried an additional meaning for them, as they are both volunteers for the first ever Olympic Games organised in China.
"Our work during the Games mainly involves welcoming the foreign sports delegations and to look after their living arrangements and daily needs," Zhang said.
"Two officers on patrol saw the truck driving on a parallel road, and noticed that the driver clearly wasn't 18," Tessel Horsman, a police spokeswoman in The Hague, told AFP.
It transpired the child was driving the truck, "a large one", on a public road in the southern town of Honselersdijk, with his father shouting instructions from the road.