China Promotes IVF to Combat Rising Infertility Rates in its Aging Population

A medical staff taking care of a new born baby at a hospital in Fuyang in China's eastern Anhui province on Jan. 19, 2019. China's population shrank last year for the first time in 70 years, experts said, warning of a 'demographic crisis' that puts pressure on the country's slowing economy. STR/AFP via Getty Images

After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) introduced the “three-child policy” in May, local governments started various incentives to encourage people to have more children, including the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Analysts believe that the CCP would go as far as using technological means to increase China’s birthrate in an aging population.

On Sept. 14,  Chinese state-controlled media CCTV said that, in recent years, more families are choosing assisted reproductive technology with infertility on the rise.