Shandong battles to reduce serious gender imbalance

Selective abortion remains a challenge in rural Shandong province, where some villages have purchased ultrasonic devices to detect the gender of fetuses, a member of the province's political advisory body said.

Lian Fang, an expert at the reproductive and genetic center of the hospital affiliated with Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said on Saturday that she is treating an increasing number of women who have become infertile due to abortions.

"Most women had abortions because the fetus was not male," said Lian.