Chinese Couple Finds Way To ‘Adopt’ a Black Market Baby

A newborn baby in a private obstetrics hospital on February 21, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Due to the shortage of medical resources in Wuhan, many women choose to give birth in private hospitals. Getty Images

Buying and selling babies is illegal in China. However, some have found ways to evade detection.

According to a September report from The Paper, a Chinese state-owned digital newspaper, a couple in China successfully registered a baby that they bought, through illegal channels, by claiming that the baby had been “abandoned.”