BEIJING: Since China implemented the universal second-child policy at the beginning of last year, more than half of the 90 million newly eligible couples include women aged 35 or older, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
Geng Linlin, deputy director of the clinical center at the commission’s scientific research institute, said many of these women are past prime fertility so they find it difficult to have a second baby.
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