Fudan University opens new sperm bank to better serve infertile Chinese couples. Photo: VCG Even after Chinese authorities loosened birth policies to increase the population and tackle the dire shortage of China's labor force, the national birth rate has failed to rise by much, as many Chinese families simply cannot afford to have a second child. Meanwhile, a proportion of Chinese families are in fact desperate to have a child but are physically unable to because of infertility. Statistics show that about one in eight couples in China cannot have babies, the Beijing News reported in May. Five percent of these couples must use a donor's sperm to conceive, Jiang Feng, senior andrology specialist and director of the Human Sperm Bank of Fudan University told Global Times. Of semen and sperm A research report on the status of infertility in China issued by the health authorities shows that the infertility rate in China has risen to between