China’s falling birth rate prompts call to allow single women to freeze eggs

China’s falling birth rate prompts call to allow single women to freeze eggs

Xu Congjian, a member of the top political advisory body, says policies on assisted reproductive technology should be ‘moderately liberalised’.

China's top political advisory urges for measures to boost birth rate following decline in population

China's shrinking population has come out as a concern for the government, which has pushed authorities to roll out incentives and measures to boost birth and fertility rate in the country. Last year, China recorded its lowest ever birth rate, of 6.77 births per 1,000 people.

Offering egg-freezing access to single women proposed

A Chinese political adviser was set to propose gradually opening up access to egg-freezing for unmarried women and including infertility treatments in the public health insurance system, after Beijing posted negative population growth for the first time in over six decades. "I wish some breakthrough can be made in loosening rules on egg-freezing for single women in a bid to effectively preserve and protect their fertility," Lu Weiying, a member …

Allow single women to freeze eggs to boost birth rate, China told

Unmarried women in China should be allowed to freeze their eggs amid a nosedive in the country’s birth rate, a political adviser has said.Only married women can

China may allow single women to freeze their eggs, but not to use them

However, the woman still has to get married if she wants to use her frozen eggs and get pregnant in the future

As China's birth rate slumps, political advisor urges egg freezing for single women

A member of China's top political advisory body said she would propose allowing unmarried women to access egg freezing as a measure to preserve their fertility after the country's population fell last year for the first time in six decades.