China Reports Test-tube Baby Success Rate GrowthMore than 80 hospitals were engaged in the test-tube technology in 2000 in comparison to just 20 in previous year.China has also founded some research centers on test-tube technology in Beijing and other cities. Already 4,000 women have given birth with the help of the technology throughout the country. The success rate in the field is 25 percent at hospitals on the provincial level, as the international standard is 30 percent. The test-tube baby technology has undergone three stages of development since it was first adopted in Britain in 1978. China's first test-tube baby came in 1988 in Beijing with the first generation technique. As the medics developed the third generation technology and wiped out the risks of harming babies, the first China's baby was born in Guangdong Province in April 2000. About 10 percent of China's 230 million couples of childbearing age have problems with fertility, according to professor Ruan Xiangyan from the Beijing Hospital for Gynaecology and Obstetrics. |
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