Chinese Surrogacy Tourism Grows

With surrogacy illegal in China, agencies and clinics now connect Chinese clients to foreign surrogate mothers (notably in the U.S., Georgia, Kyrgyzstan) — a market driven both by infertile couples and younger women who want to avoid pregnancy’s career/body impacts. A Financial Times study cited by the post found nearly a third of intended surrogate parents in the U.S. are international and about 40% of those are from China; packages can start around $63,000 in places like Kyrgyzstan. — Cross‑border surrogacy raises questions about reproductive autonomy, regulatory arbitrage, socioeconomic access to parenthood, and long‑run demographic effects in China and destination countries.