Some 100 Chinese couples who met while serving as police officers have married in Beijing at a mass wedding, China's Xinhua news agency said on Friday.

The minister of public security, Meng Jianzhu, extended his best wishes to the newly-married at the ceremony.

"It is not so easy to be a policeman," he said, adding that the job was extremely dangerous and officers often had to work overtime, suffered injuries and often risked their own lives.

Over 2,000 policemen have died whilst on duty in China in the past six years, according to ministry statistics.

Earlier this week, some 100 couples from across the country took part in the first mass traditional style wedding in modern China, in the western Fujian province of Sanming.