British media: the birth rate of Chinese young men is falling.
[global network reporter Yu Pengfei] according to the financial times of Britain in November 29th, the sperm bank across China faces The poor predicament of qualified donors. The sharp decline in semen quality of young men will further complicate China's population problems.
studies show that the Chinese government's efforts to raise China's birth rate are facing a serious obstacle - the quality of the semen of young male donors has fallen sharply. China is one of the lowest birth rate countries in the world.
, according to a study that lasted 15 years and over 30 thousand applicants for sperm donors, only less than 1/5 of the young people who donated sperm in Hunan in the inland provinces of China were healthy enough to be eligible to donate. In 2001, more than half of the applicants were eligible.
Hunan is not the only province with insufficient donor sperm. A sperm bank in Henan has reduced the minimum requirements for the donor's height and education, and saved the donor's sperm for 30 years to make up for the shortage of sperm.
"more and more evidence seems to show that male infertility is becoming a serious problem throughout the country," said Huang Yanzhong, a senior global health researcher at the American Foreign Relations Commission (CFR) in New York. If these findings reflect a broader trend, this will further complicate China's growing population problem.
according to the annual sampling survey conducted by the Chinese government on the annual population of 1% of the 17 million residents, the fertility rate in China last year was 1.05. Fertility refers to the total number of children expected to have children at childbearing age.
in the world bank survey in 2014, the fertility rate of the countries and regions with the lowest fertility rates - South Korea, Portugal, Hongkong and Macao - was 1.2, while the global average fertility rate was 2.5. The survey estimates that China's fertility rate is 1.6, which is still far below the level of fertility for one country to reduce the fertility rate - an average of 2.1 children per woman.
China is in the process of rapid aging, resulting in a shortage of young workers. However, China's fertility rate has been declining for a long time. The index fell from the peak of 6.4 children per child in 1965 to 2.8 in 1979.
the one-child policy was abolished at the end of last year and replaced by the two child policy. However, as many Chinese couples seem reluctant to use this opportunity to raise second children, the relaxation of the old policy has failed to achieve the expectations of Chinese policymakers to raise the Chinese birth rate.
, however, Tariq GA Sari Vecchi, a spokesman for the WHO (WHO), said that because the methods of analyzing semen in various research projects are often different, WHO is not yet fully determined to determine what causes the evil of the quality of semen in a particular country or a number of countries. He also cautioned that semen quality is not necessarily directly related to male fertility. Male reproductive health may be influenced by many complex factors, including lifestyle, environment and related diseases. As far as the deterioration of semen quality is concerned, more research is needed before we can come up with sound guidance or policy recommendations.
and experts point out that the so-called "busy" phenomenon is mainly the contradiction between the few donors, the low proportion of qualified donors, and the demand for more patients with fine disease. Less than 1/5 of the Chinese university students are able to receive sperm donations, and less than half of them voluntarily participate in the donation. "China is deeply influenced by traditional thinking. Many people think of sperm donation as a" improper law "and" unbecoming ".
in addition, "nowadays young people are always night owls, and their sex is relatively open in universities. The rule of unhealthy life easily leads to a decline in sperm quality".