HONG KONG/BEIJING — As China tries to slow its demographic decline, women like Chen Luojin could be part of the solution. The divorced 33-year-old lives in Chengdu, capital of the southwestern Sichuan province, which legalised registration of children by unmarried women in February, something China is considering implementing nationwide to address record low birth rates. The changes mean unmarried women...
A doctor extracts semen specimen, at the embryologic laboratory of the assisted reproductive centre, at the Beijing Perfect Family Hospital, which specialises in fertility treatments, in Beijing, China, on April 6, 2023.HONG KONG/BEIJING — As China tries to slow its demographic decline, women like Chen Luojin could be part of the solution.
Liberalising IVF nationwide could unleash more demand for fertility treatment in what is already the world's biggest market, straining limited fertility services. Some investors in the industry see an opportunity to expand. "The queues in the hospital are very long," said 34-year-old Xiangyu, a married woman undergoing IVF in Chongqing, some 300 kilometres east of Chengdu. She spoke on the condition of partial anonymity for privacy reasons.
Vivian Zhang, managing director of Merck China, which provides fertility products and services for IVF clinics in the country, said cities in the less-affluent inland provinces are quickly developing fertility centres similar to those in Beijing and Shanghai. The country implemented a rigid one-child policy from 1980 until 2015 — the root of many of its demographic challenges that have allowed India to become the world's most populous nation. The limit has since been raised to three children.
"People in China are marrying and having children much later than previously, which has led to an increase in infertility, miscarriage and increased risk of fetal abnormalities," she said.In the US, the average success rate of an IVF cycle is 52 per cent, the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology says.
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