Beijing wants women to have more babies. So why isn't it loosening rules on egg freezing?
CNN
Eva Cai knows she wants a child. She's just not sure if she wants a husband.
So, in 2019 she took a train across the border from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou to Hong Kong, where she froze her eggs in a private clinic. Now age 31, the senior executive still hasn't claimed them -- she would need to be married to do so -- but the two-hour journey gave her an option not available to most single women in China.
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