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# Assisted reproductive technologies (ART)
## ART in China
[[Following a 2001 Chinese government order, IUI and IVF were only available to infertile married couples; surrogacy, and the trading of human sperm, eggs and embryos, were prohibited.]][^1]
[[China’s ART regulations ‘have strongly reinforced a hetero-reproductive family model, denying parenthood to single and non-heterosexual people and restricting their ability to form legible family units.’]][^2]
### Private Chinese ART companies
[[There are two types of private ART companies in China; neither are actually licenced to provide medical treatment.]][^3]
[^1]: Han Tao, ‘[[Tao, ‘A Desirable Future of Unaffordable Hope’, 2022|A Desirable Future of Unaffordable Hope? Queer People Becoming Parents Through Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) in Guangdong, China]]’, *Culture, Health & Sexuality* (16 March 2022), p. 415. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2022.2049879.
[^2]: Han Tao, ‘Desirable Future or Unaffordable Hope?’, p. 415.
[^3]: Han Tao, ‘Desirable Future or Unaffordable Hope?’, p. 415.