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By Kunling Wu<\/p>\n
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S<\/span>iyi Wang posted a selfie on her WeChat Moments in late March from when she visited Madrid. Having just completed her egg retrieval surgery, she looked tired but happy. After 10 days of ovarian stimulation and then a surgery, Wang managed to save 15 eggs for freezing.<\/span><\/p>\n If it wasn\u2019t for the pandemic, she would have completed this procedure in 2019. She was only 27 years old then, which was considered a young age compared to the average client who undergoes this reproductive treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n However, Wang\u2019s decision to freeze her eggs at such a young age was nothing out of the ordinary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On Xiaohongshu, one of China’s most popular social media applications, posts about egg freezing services in various countries are widely shared. These posts cover not only technologically-advanced countries like the United States, Europe, Japan, Thailand, and Australia, but also places such as Taiwan, Malaysia, and even Cambodia.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”50%” custom_margin=”|auto|-70px|auto|false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” module_alignment=”center” min_height=”358.4px” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Given that egg freezing is illegal in China unless prescribed by a medical note, many unmarried women are then forced to go overseas for fertility preservation. In mainland China, unmarried women are prohibited from accessing fertility services such as egg freezing and in vitro fertilization (IVF), unless they need fertility preservation before undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy.<\/span><\/p>\n