Surrogate-birth services facing crackdown against advertising

Health authorities are cracking down on surrogate-birth services by stepping up efforts to hunt down and stop anyone advertising such services online.

In Beijing, more than 8,000 such postings have been removed from a wide range of websites since April.

In Shanghai, the Health Department has paid close attention to the advertising of 97 media organizations to prevent surrogacy ads, the national working group on fighting surrogacy said in a statement published on Thursday.