After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) introduced the “three-child policy” in May, local governments started various incentives to encourage people to have more children, including the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Analysts believe that the CCP would go as far as using technological means to increase China’s birthrate in an aging population. On Sept. 14, Chinese state-controlled media CCTV said that, in recent years, more families are choosing assisted reproductive technology with infertility on the rise. In the CCTV program, some experts recommended IVF as the most common method among the various techniques, commonly referred to as test-tube babies. According to the report, about 300,000 test-tube babies are born in China every year. However, assisted reproduction is costly. Including examination and treatment, an IVF procedure costs between $5,873 and $7,728, and more than half of the couples require the procedure more than once before it succeeds. Meanwhile, China has …
China Promotes IVF to Combat Rising Infertility Rates in its Aging Population
September 24, 2021
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