The ruling by a court in Beijing is the first of its kind following the introduction off a new marriage law in China.

Now the woman will receive the equivalent of $7700 for five years worth of work, the case generating significant online debate about the value off domestic work.

BBC's Carrie Allen told us what the reaction has been like on Weber, China's equivalent of Twitter.

Well, the majority of people actually think that this is not a lot of money.

I mean, 50,000 U.

N, which is the local currency, is roughly about a year's worth of somebody's salary or less than a year's salary on.

But this woman is going to be given it 2000 U.

N per month, which again is not sufficient a salary when she's not been working for a long period of time.

People who do think is well that there is an expectation in China that when you break up with somebody that you should be compensated, that there has been a trend now in China for a number of years of what are known as break up fees.

So when two people break up, compensation is normally given from the boyfriend to his girlfriend for effectively wasting her time.

One of the circumstances of this particular divorce, Carrie Well, the couple have been together for five years on, but he was actually the one who filed for divorce back in 2000 and 20 last year on Duh.

What happened?

Waas His ex wife then decided Thio take advantage of this civil code that kicked in at the beginning of this year, which allows her to seek compensation for child care and household work.

S so it's a It's a very new case.

It's a very new procedure in Chinese court on yes, she was successful.

So it is, seems a landmark case.

And does This new law means that marriage is being talked about quite a lot on social media?

Yes, but it has been for a while now in China.

I mean, there's a huge married.

There's a huge gender gap in China.

There are tens, millions more men than there are women.

So a lot of people just don't want to get married anyway.

And this has The government has concerns about this because this could lead to a stalling birth rate.

So it's been trying to do a lot to try and get couples together.

Thio stay married on, not to get divorced.

So this is partly why this civil code is is a big thing for China.

Caroline Ellen there.