although the number of people seeking surrogacy services is increasing, it is impossible for ordinary people to have such a smart "boss". "Of us, 99% of us do not have fertility and want to have a child; only 1% are able to live, but they want to spend money on life," Lv Jinfeng said.
2012 Chinese infertility patients' demand survey report issued by the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine infertility base and other institutions, said that "among the survey population, the incidence of infertility in one year was 10%, the incidence of infertility was 15% in two years and 25% in 10 years." The youngest age of treatment was 23 years, with a maximum age of 40 years. Lv Jinfeng said, "every month we want to be a surrogate customer, at least five hundred or six hundred, the business is growing at rocket speed, with an annual increase of about 50%."
infertility is a rigid demand group for surrogacy industry. With the increase of this group, the surrogate intermediary practitioners are also increasing rapidly. Lv Jinfeng conservatively estimated that there were more than 50 people who went out alone to start his company. According to a New York Times report, there are about 1000 companies providing surrogacy services in China, about twenty or thirty in scale. There's a price for the hurricane. In 2004, when Lv Jinfeng's first surrogacy business ended, he paid the surrogate mother $fifty thousand, "she's already happy." Later, the cost rose to 80 thousand and increased from 80 thousand to 100 thousand, 120 thousand or even 180 thousand. Now it has reached 200 thousand, and has gone up four times. Some medical institutions are also jealous of this market. "There are fewer than more than 200 underground reproductive centers without licences, and others are purely surrogacy." Lv Jinfeng said.
competition in the surrogacy industry has become intense. The vacuum of regulation has contributed to the deformity and prosperity of the industry. Surrogacy is a grey area of law in China, and there are no rules to regulate the operation of these underground surrogacy agencies. "Most of the industry is manual shops, husband and wife shops, brotherhood shops, find a place to do." Lv Jinfeng's staff Zhang Hao told China News Weekly.
, in fact, assisted reproductive technology is a highly sophisticated medical technology that needs to be equipped with a full set of medical equipment, including the tube baby operating table, microscope, embryo culture box, embryo storage room, operating bed, etc., if pure imports, the whole set of equipment down to 67 million. "Many agencies use some public hospitals to eliminate equipment, the total price will not exceed 800 thousand." The whole operation process needs to be carried out in sterile room temperature laboratory, which requires that hospitals have a 100 level laminar operation system to ensure success rate. Lv Jinfeng said his equipment in Shanghai cost tens of millions of dollars, and there are not only millions of laminar flow equipment that purify the air. However, he knew that some bosses "bought several air purifiers in their rooms, which cost less than a thousand yuan".
this makes it difficult for many surrogacy agencies to guarantee the success rate of surgery. "Many customers do not have so much money, they will choose to go to cheap institutions to do it, and finally the child is not born, money has been wasted." Lv Jinfeng said. Without the support of technology and strength, many organizations are only short-lived. The chairman of another surrogacy agency said, "these failed institutions can sometimes reopen their money by changing their names."
in this case, there is also a lot of disputes about surrogacy, and even the use of surrogacy to defraud money. For example, after the failure of embryo transfer, surrogacy agencies hide the truth, forge inspection certificates, and continue to defraud customers of their costs. In early 2015, the Yangcheng Evening News reported a couple's experience of being cheated by "giving birth to children by borrowing the belly". A couple who had not been married for 10 years, after spending about 400000 yuan, was asked to pay extra fees by various reasons such as surrogate mother's physical discomfort. The couple refused to pay, the other side threatened by abortion, and eventually aborted the surrogate mother. After that, the surrogacy agency also claimed that the embryo itself had problems and asked the couple to compensate the mother for 170 thousand yuan. There is also a situation where customers are retracting. Some people want to have a son, so the girl is born and refused to pay the tail.
surrogacy industry is behind the profits. "To make a single business, the profit is between 30% and 60%." A financial officer, who worked at a surrogate agency, told China News Weekly that when she counted the payroll for the salesman, she found, "a salesman is close to 160 thousand in one quarter," "a single business, and a salesman can raise 3 to 10 points."
If a minimum of 650 thousand yuan, a single business of 30% profit, Lv Jinfeng has so far carried out a total of tens of thousands of babies' business, conservatively estimating profits at least 1 billion. Lv Jinfeng laughed and said, "don't just talk about money. We do love work."
Deborah Spahr, a professor at Columbia University, explores the status of the assisted reproductive market in her book "baby business". What surprised her most was that, in the many fields she had been exposed to, it was an industry that obviously had both buyers and sellers and had money trading, but no one admitted that they were engaged in business transactions. This is especially true of Lv Jinfeng. "We are giving love and doing charity." Whether it is open to the media or the face of every customer, he says so, but when he talks about business, he haggled at the customer.
just a few days ago, 95 thousand yuan for a client to buy egg donor eggs was not in place, and although the egg was to be taken in second days, and then in vitro fertilization with the sperm of a male client, Lv Jinfeng refused to hesitate to reject the request for the implantation of the mother's womb after the embryo was formed. "First freeze the embryo and transplant the money in place."
Lv Jinfeng said, "this industry is now a traditional industry, industrialization, not as you imagine." Indeed, the giant baby production Kingdom has been refined into a well-defined production line: an intermediary is responsible for looking for surrogate mothers; the egg market has a specialized practitioner to publish recruitment information on the Internet; and other medical devices needed for surrogate surgery. But this industry, which is closely related to personal privacy, has been operating secretly in the corner where ordinary people can not notice.
(above) Chen Fang lived in a three - House suite with two other moms, but they all refused to contact with reporters and closed the door. After some communication, they agreed to take a photo without face on behalf of AA69 logistics personnel. Chinese News Weekly
(lower left), Ms. Zhou, who lives in the left door, is 30 years old in Qianjiang, Hubei, with a height of 1 meters 62 and a junior high school diploma. I used to breed crayfish in my old home. He has 1 daughters, and is 12 years old. One week before the photo, the boy who had just surpassed the surrogacy was 7 Jin 8 double. AA69 logistics personnel
(lower right) in the right door of Ms. ye, 30 years old, Fujian Fuzhou people, height 1 meters 62, junior high school diploma. Previously opened shop to run Shaxian County snacks, and later lost, so surrogacy to earn some money. He has 2 daughters, 11 years old, and 7 years old. It's about 36 weeks in the abdomen. AA69 logistics personnel