China weighs giving single women IVF access to stem population decline

Doctor Xu Xiaoming, director of the embryologic laboratory of the assisted reproductive centre, shows the room for egg retrieval surgery, at the Beijing Perfect Family Hospital, which specialises in fertility treatments, in Beijing, China April 6, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

As China tries to slow its demographic decline, women like Chen Luojin could be part of the solution.

The divorced 33-year-old lives in Chengdu, capital of the southwestern Sichuan province, which legalised registration of children by unmarried women in February, something China is considering implementing nationwide to address record low birth rates.