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Calls grow for end to ban that means only married Chinese couples can access ‘social egg freezing’ services
When Yang Li* turned 30, she gave herself three years to decide whether or not she wanted to have children. But as the years ticked by, working a busy job in Beijing, Yang felt none the wiser about if or when she wanted to become a mother. So last year, a month shy of her 34th birthday, she decided to freeze her eggs.
The problem was, as a single woman in China, no fertility clinic would help her. Despite China’s push to boost the birthrate, only married couples with fertility problems can use egg-freezing services or any kind of assisted reproductive technologies.
Watch the Guardian documentary where single women Lei and Abu are banned from freezing their eggs in China, so travel to the US to pursue their dreams of motherhood.

Fertility tourism is booming for single Chinese women with hopes of future motherhood. China’s birth rate is at a record low, yet unmarried women are not legally allowed to freeze their eggs there. We meet Lei and Abu, as they travel to the US for the procedure, battling self doubt and scepticism along the way. What does this mean for womanhood and parenting in modern China?

Fertility tourism is booming for single Chinese women with hopes of future motherhood. China's birthrate is at a record low, yet unmarried women are not legally allowed to freeze their eggs there. We meet Lei and Abu, as they travel to the US for the procedure, battling self-doubt and scepticism along the way. What does this mean for womanhood and parenting in modern China?

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Guo Wengui, who gained fans for criticizing Communist party in China, found guilty in US of nine criminal counts
Guo Wengui, a self-exiled Chinese business tycoon whose criticism of the Communist party won him legions of online followers and powerful friends in the American conservative movement, was convicted by a US jury on Tuesday of engaging in an enormous multi-year fraud that ripped off some of his most devoted fans.
Once believed to be among the richest people in China, Guo was arrested in New York in March 2023 and accused of operating a racketeering enterprise that stretched from 2018 through 2023.

A Chinese business tycoon who sought asylum in the U.S. now stands convicted on charges that he engaged in a massive, multiyear fraud.

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Asian American political activists hope the increase in representation will correspond with a push to connect with a voting bloc that has long been overlooked.

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