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Surrogacy is still big business in Shanghai despite a police raid on a major agency just a few months ago.
The practice, although banned in China, has been in growing demand during the past two years since the country relaxed its stringent one-child policy and allowed all couples to have two children, experts said.
News portal Thepaper.cn went undercover to visit a surrogate agency this month.
The company’s owner, who was identified as Wang Li, said she charged 430,000 yuan (HK$500,000) as a “basic price” and 680,000 yuan for a set menu that guaranteed conception within two years.
Wang said her agency had two centres in different districts and clients visited the facilities every day.
Chinese health officials have prohibited medical institutions and staff from carrying out “any form of surrogacy” and trading in sperm, ovum, fertilised eggs and embryos is also forbidden.
In May, police raided a surrogate agency in Songjiang district, discovering four embryos and six fertilised eggs on the site.
The centre was run by a “business consulting firm” and its owner was fined nearly 2 million...