UN calls for more sex ed in country

China needs to provide more sex education to youth to ensure the health of the young people, who are critical to the country's future, according to the United Nations Population Fund.

"Many young people (in China) do have sex before they get married, but we don't have a health policy that actually responds to that, so there are millions of abortions every year, and almost half of them are from adolescents," Arie Hoekman, UNFPA's representative in China, said on Monday.

"It could have been so easier if we could just acknowledge that and have more sex education among young people, and have contraceptives so young people can protect themselves," he said at an event to mark the release of the report State of World Population 2014.