WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: China Experiences a Booming Underground Market in Child Surrogacy. “As in most countries, surrogacy is illegal in China. But a combination of rising infertility, a recent relaxation of the one-child-per-family policy and a cultural imperative to have children has given rise to a booming black market in surrogacy that experts say produces well over 10,000 births a year.”