--FILE--chercheurs chinois vérifier le don de sperme est congelé dans un récipient spécial dans le laboratoire d'une banque de sperme à Shenyang, ville du nord-est de la Chine Lia
--FILE--Chinese researchers check donated sperm being frozen in a special container in the lab of a sperm bank in Shenyang city, northeast China's Liaoning province, 12 October 2011. China's sperm banks are already facing a shortage of donors, and a government proposal to end the country's decades-old family planning policy may put more pressure on the institutions. The Communist Party of China Central Committee proposed the scrapping of the current policy in late October in order to balance population growth and offset the burden of an aging population. According to a report carried by Jiangxi Daily, a growing number of couples with fertility problems have visited local hospitals and sperm banks for consultations since the policy announcement. The infertility rate is high in China, with statistics released by the China Population Association at the end of 2012 showing 40 million people have fertility issues, accounting for 12.5 percent of the population aged between 20 and 49. Many couples have turned to sperm banks for help. Meanwhile, sperm banks are dealing with a worsening shortage of healthy sperm, despite repeated efforts to recruit more donors.
