Buying and selling babies is illegal in China. However, some have found ways to evade detection. According to a September report from The Paper, a Chinese state-owned digital newspaper, a couple in China successfully registered a baby that they bought, through illegal channels, by claiming that the baby had been “abandoned.” Zhang Xing and Liu Yan are a couple from Hubei Province. They were married in 2017 and were unable to conceive after trying for several years. The couple considered adopting children and went to orphanages for a consultation, but they were disappointed. Zhang said that there was no available child in any of the orphanages, and even if there was, “the waiting list is too long.” The couple suggested that infertility treatments are too costly, ranging from an average of $16,000 to potentially  $100,000 and there’s no guarantee they will work. Whereas buying a healthy child would cost half …