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{{Country
|name=China
|image_flag=China-flag.gif
|Region=Asia
|Population=1,321,851,888
|GDP=3,250,827
|Eggs for assisted reproduction=commercial prohibited
|Eggs for research=commercial prohibited
|Inheritable genetic modification=?
|Preimplantation genetic diagnosis=social uses prohibited
|Reproductive cloning=PROHIBITED
|Research cloning=regulated
|Sex selection=social uses prohibited
|Surrogacy=PROHIBITED
|2005 UN Cloning Vote=no
|2005 UNESCO Sports Doping Convention=RATIFIED
|Treaty of Lisbon=n/a
|Key laws and policies=* [http://www.chinaphs.org/bioethics/regulations_&_laws.htm Ethical Guidelines on Human Embryonic Stem Cell] (January 2004)
* Measures on the Regulation of Human Supplemental Reproduction Technologies, Ministry of Health Order No. 14 (2001)
* Human Reproductive Technology Ordinance, Section 15 (June 2000)
|Prohibited practices=Reproductive cloning is prohibited by the Ethical Guidelines on Human Embryonic Stem Cell and the Regulation on Human Assisted Reproductive Technologies.<ref name="gppc">Genetics and Public Policy Center, "[http://www.dnapolicy.org/policy.international.php?action=detail&laws_id=23 Human Reproductive Technology Ordinance (China)]"</ref> 

Research cloning is specifically allowed.<ref name=cd>Jia Hepend, "[http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/31/content_429816.htm China supports therapeutic cloning]," ''China Daily'', March 31, 2005</ref>

Sex selection is prohibited<ref name="gppc2">Genetics and Public Policy Center, "[http://www.dnapolicy.org/policy.international.php?action=detail&laws_id=19 Reproductive Genetic Testing (China)]"</ref>  but a wide imbalance in the sex ratio at birth, especially in certain affluent provinces, demonstrates that it occurs.<ref name=bmj>Ted Plafker, "[http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/324/7348/1233/a Sex selection in China sees 117 boys born for every 100 girls]," ''BMJ'' 2002;324:1233 (25 May)</ref> Wealthy Chinese are reported to travel to the US and elsewhere to evade restrictions on the use of PGD.<ref name=ap>"[http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-06/15/content_617607.htm Wealthy go to US to choose baby's sex]," AP, June 15, 2006</ref>

Surrogacy is prohibited.<ref name="cook">Rachel Cook, Shelley Day Sclater, and Felicity Kaganas, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FOyyRd9IM74C&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=china+surrogacy+law+OR+policy&source=web&ots=vNCibMRGt2&sig=bD5ZlVsF7HindsRctDSH9LA1ZZQ&hl=en Surrogate Motherhood: International Perspectives]'', Hart Publishing (2003) p. 2</ref> However, some surrogacy - including commercial surrogacy - occurs.<ref name=points>Kari Points, "Strategies for Protecting the Health and Human Rights of Surrogates in India:  A Multicountry Legislative Analysis," Master's Thesis, The Sanford Institute of Public Policy , Duke University (2009)</ref><ref name=Pomfret>James Pomfret, "[http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4660 Forced abortions shake up China wombs-for-rent industry], Reuters (April 30th, 2009)</ref>

There is a general prohibition against the sale of gametes, including eggs.<ref name="gppc2" /><ref name=asrm>American Society for Reproductive Medicine, "[http://www.fertstert.org/issues/contents?issue_key=S0015-0282(07)X0176-6 IFFS Surveillance 07]," ''Fertility and Sterility'' (Vol. 87. No. 4, Suppl. 1, April 2007)</ref> 

In Hong Kong, however, which is partially autonomous, both surrogacy and compensation for providing eggs (for reproduction and for research) are allowed.<ref name=Sing/><ref name=asrm/>
|History=The Human Reproductive Technology Ordinance of 200 appears to have prohibited research cloning, stating that "No person shall... for the purposes of embryo research": 
* bring about the creation of an embryo
* replace the nucleus of a cell of an embryo with a nucleus taken from any other cell
* clone any embryo.
Recent policy changes appear to override this ordinance.
}}
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