The situation is that people are marrying later and later, and there are many unmarried people of advanced age. They want to save their eggs for the future while they still have eggs available in their ovaries. I recently heard that Sister Xu had her eggs frozen abroad. Can the average woman achieve this? Also, for those who are too old to produce eggs but want to have children, can they borrow eggs to have children? In China, healthy unmarried women are not allowed to freeze their eggs, and even if there are hospitals that will freeze eggs for unmarried women, they must be married in order to use the frozen eggs to conceive when the time comes to have children. The conditions for egg freezing in a married state are also very strict, and couples with normal fertility are not allowed to freeze their eggs, and infertile couples have to submit a birth certificate to freeze their eggs, as well as when in vitro fertilization is not possible in time. Infertile couples who are unable to produce eggs often cannot wait for a legal egg donation and have to resort to the black market for eggs. [Read more] Yesterday, Han Han questioned the egg freezing rule on Weibo, saying “there is no need for a woman to be tied to a man’s marriage for fertility”. Not only that, but egg freezing, which is becoming increasingly popular in the United States, can be a dead end in China, almost everywhere. The reason why egg freezing is not allowed for healthy unmarried women is that medical institutions are prohibited from performing assisted human reproduction for single women who do not comply with the birth control policy. After the news emerged that “egg freezing is illegal for single women in the mainland”, some netizens said that they did not find any laws or regulations that clearly stipulate this. Zhihu netizen Ji Hongwei, a lawyer, claimed to have “checked the Measures for the Administration of Assisted Human Reproductive Technology mentioned therein and found no rule that directly or indirectly states that unmarried single women cannot adopt assisted human reproductive technology.” However, he apparently overlooked Article 13, which states that medical institutions “prohibit the implementation of assisted human reproduction techniques for couples and single women who do not comply with the provisions of national population and family planning laws and regulations.” Therefore, it is virtually impossible for unmarried, healthy single women to freeze and preserve their eggs in China. Even if a hospital is willing to freeze eggs for an unmarried woman, when it comes time to have a baby, she must be married to a man and can only get pregnant with frozen eggs if the state allows you to have a baby. As the birthplace of the first IVF baby in mainland China, the Beihang Hospital successfully produced the first “triple freeze” (frozen eggs, frozen sperm and frozen embryos) IVF baby in China and the second in the world in 2005. However, the hospital does not encourage women who come to it to freeze their eggs. In the July article “Xu Jinglei’s Egg Freezing Journey”, Liu Ping, chief physician of the Center for Reproductive Medicine at Beihang Hospital, said, “We definitely follow the family planning policy. If you are unmarried, it is not possible to give you assisted reproduction, because I can’t let unmarried people get pregnant, ah, but in the link of egg freezing has not yet involved pregnancy, we just freeze the eggs, wait until the time of use you must be married, the state allows you to give birth.” The couple with normal fertility can not freeze their eggs, infertile couples have to hand in their birth certificates and other three certificates, and only consider freezing their eggs in special cases where the husband fails to retrieve sperm and does not accept the sperm donor on the day of egg collection Even couples with normal fertility can not freeze and preserve their eggs, China’s “Measures for the Administration of Human Assisted Reproductive Technology” issued in 2001 stipulates that only women with malignant tumors before radiation and chemotherapy, women suffering from Only women with malignant tumors before radiotherapy and chemotherapy and women with infertility can have their eggs removed and frozen before in vitro fertilization cannot be performed in time.” Egg freezing” is an assisted reproductive technology, and Chinese law clearly states that only couples with the “three certificates”, i.e. marriage certificate, ID card and birth certificate, and suffering from infertility can receive assisted reproductive technology treatment. For the safety of egg freezing, the Shanghai Municipal Health Planning Commission issued a regulation in 2013 that couples with a history of infertility and indications for assisted conception should only consider freezing their eggs in special cases where the husband fails to retrieve sperm on the day of egg collection and does not accept sperm donation. Even though women with malignant tumors or cancer can freeze their eggs, they have nowhere to store them. Since cancer patients undergo surgery, radiation therapy or chemotherapy, which may damage the function of their ovaries or even remove them, they can freeze their eggs before treatment. However, there are no corresponding regulations for egg banking in China and the Ministry of Health has not officially approved the establishment of egg banks in any hospital. Therefore, most frozen eggs for cancer patients are self-frozen. In 2004, the First Affiliated Hospital of Peking University made an experimental attempt to establish an egg bank, which was stopped due to the low number of egg donors, the immaturity of egg freezing technology, and the ethical issues involved, and in 2009, the Third Hospital of Beihang Medical College also tried to build an egg bank, but it was eventually abandoned. In addition to patients with malignant tumors, those who need to freeze their eggs are those who cannot produce eggs themselves and need someone else to donate them. In the process of IVF, egg freezing instead of embryo freezing can avoid the abandonment of too many frozen embryos and avoid legal and ethical challenges. Researchers such as W. Wang at the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University found that there was no significant difference in clinical pregnancy rates between the application of egg freezing technology for IVF assisted reproduction and the clinical pregnancy rates after thawing of frozen embryos. In a media interview, Dr. Ping Liu, director of the Center for Reproductive Medicine at Beihang Hospital, said that the current success rate of using frozen eggs to achieve fertility is around 30%. Among the IVF population, 60 percent of the infertility factors are female problems, and there are many cases that require or need to receive donor eggs, but the current egg supply alone cannot meet the needs of infertile people waiting for eggs. As early as 2009, researchers at the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University stated that the number of patients currently waiting in the queue for egg donation, in the form of previous egg donations, would take up to 10 years. The only eggs that can be used for lending treatment are unused eggs from IVF treatment cycles, but since the donor is the mother who is “seeking a child”, the possibility of donating eggs is extremely low. In China, egg freezing and egg donation for ordinary people do not comply with the Administrative Measures for Assisted Reproductive Technology and are not in line with industry regulations. In 2006, the Ministry of Health issued the “Notice of the Ministry of Health on the Issuance of the Implementation Rules for the Calibration of Human Assisted Reproductive Technology and Human Sperm Banks”, which requires that egg donors be limited to women who have undergone egg retrieval during a human assisted reproductive treatment cycle. In other words, the egg donor must also be a woman who needs IVF herself and has extra eggs from the relevant procedure, and then have her own consent to have legally donated eggs. In January 2015 the Beijing Evening News interviewed staff at the Beihang Hospital and there were basically no cases where women could donate their unused eggs after IVF.” Liu Ping, chief physician of the Center for Reproductive Medicine at Beihang Hospital, said that women who undergo IVF treatment in the hospital are reluctant to donate their remaining eggs that have been frozen to others, even after successful births, for reasons of privacy, ethics and the difficulty of producing eggs. When donor eggs are not available through normal channels, families who are desperate for a child turn to the black market, but the private sale of eggs is illegal. There are no egg banks in China and basically no legal channels to obtain donor eggs. With “no eggs available” through legal channels, the black market for eggs is driven by profit. Families desperate for a child also spend a lot of money to buy eggs from unknown sources through these illegal channels. However, this practice of private egg donation is explicitly prohibited by the state. The Ethical Principles for Assisted Human Reproductive Technology and Human Sperm Banking, revised by the Ministry of Health in 2013, states that “ovulation promotion for the purpose of multiple births and commercial egg donation is prohibited.” The Code of Practice for Assisted Human Reproductive Technology also states that “egg donation is a humanitarian act and any organization or individual soliciting egg donors for commercial egg donation in any form is prohibited” and that “egg donation is limited to eggs left over from assisted human reproduction treatment cycles”.