Here's how you can earn a quick buck if you're a university student in China.
China has always been associated with the highest population in the world. However, that won't last for long as China's population recorded negative growth for the first time in 61 years!
According to the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS), China's population decreased by a massive 850,000 in 2022. The tables have now turned as Chinese sperm banks are now looking for healthy college students to donate.
The Yunnan Human Sperm Bank in Southwest China was among the first sperm banks to ask for healthy donors. Other sperm banks joined the bandwagon soon with their own set of conditions. The topic has quickly become a talking point on social media in China.
Yunnan Human Sperm Bank
Age: Between 20 to 40
Height: More than 165 cm
Inclusion criteria: Should be holding or pursuing a degree, no infectious or genetic disease.
Procedure: The individual will have to undergo a health checkup, and qualified ones will have to make 8-12 donations.
Subsidy payment: 4500 yuan (equivalent to ₹54,560 or $664)
Shaanxi Sperm Bank
Height: 168 cm
Subsidy payment: 5000 yuan (equivalent to ₹60630 or $734)
Shanghai Sperm Bank
Exclusion criteria: Bald, people who smoke or consume alcohol, people who suffered from hypertension and nearsightedness.
Subsidy payment: 7000 yuan (equivalent to ₹84880 or $1000)
One-Child Policy was a family planning initiative implemented by China to control the country's population growth. The initiative was started in 1980 to restrict families to a single child.
The initiative is considered to be a violation of human rights. Due to the recent trend in the population of China, the one-child policy was finally scrapped in 2015. The couples were allowed to have two children. The couples were then allowed to have a third child in 2021.
Several studies have reported that the sperm count of Chinese men has rapidly decreased in the last 25 years. A study reported the rate of qualified donors decreased from 55.78% in 2001 to 17.8% in 2015.
India is expected to overtake China to be the most populated country in April 2023. However, with China reporting a decline, there is a possibility that India has already surpassed China with a population of around 1.42 billion people.
According to a projection from the World Population Review (WPR), India's population was 141.7 crore. According to the United Nations, the world population also reached the historic number of 8 billion people in November 2022.
(Input from various media sources)
