Chinese Women Are Driving a Global Fertility Industry Boom (1)

For companies in the business of helping women conceive, China is a booming market. Chinese women are fueling a “fertility tourism” industry stretching from Southeast Asia to southern California offering in-vitro fertilization, egg freezing and other services that are often unavailable or unreliable at home.

Now Chinese clinics are looking to keep more of that spending in the country. With the government ending its one-child policy and encouraging married couples to have more children, the market inside China for fertility services will reach $1.5 billion in 2022, more than double the $670 million it generated in 2016, according to BIS ...