According to the China Population Association, more than 40 million Chinese people suffer from infertility, accounting for 12.5 percent of the country’s reproductive population.
According to the China Population Association, more than 40 million Chinese people suffer from infertility, accounting for 12.5 percent of the country’s reproductive population. The rate was only three percent about 20 years ago. To make matters worse, 77 million people are expected to be infertile by 2018. Nowadays in China, a growing number of women are reluctant to have children due to work or other personal choices, making the overseas surrogacy market increasingly popular. This includes Southeast Asian countries, the US, Ukraine and Russia. Although surrogacy is prohibited in China, a complete industrial chain has been formed to cash in on the booming business – agencies are providing both overseas surrogates and underground surrogacy services. In recent years, however, legal disputes regarding the trade have been rapidly rising. Sociologists and jurists caution that it is high time the surrogacy market is regulated at a time when the boundaries of law and ethics of the business remain unclear.
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