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

FILE PHOTO: Newborn babies sleep in a ward at a hospital in Hefei, in China's Anhui province. Picture taken April 21, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

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.

Lu Weiying, a member of China's top political advisory body, told the state backed Global Times that she would also propose including infertility treatments in the public health insurance system at the upcoming Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which kicks off on March 4. 

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