Archive · 17 Dec 2025
Chinese Billionaires Use US Surrogacy for Mega Families
Some very rich people in China are having many babies in the United States using surrogate mothers.
This means a woman carries the baby for them.
The babies automatically become American citizens because they are born in the US.
Some men have over 100 children this way.
In China, having babies this way is not allowed, but these rich people are doing it in the US where it is legal in some places.
They pay a lot of money for each baby.
Some people think this is not right because it turns babies into something you can buy.
Others worry about what this means for citizenship rules and the future.
Wealthy Chinese parents are using US surrogacy to have children who automatically gain American citizenship.
Some individuals have fathered over 100 children through surrogacy in the US.
Surrogacy is banned in China but legal in several US states, making the US a preferred destination.
The practice raises ethical, legal, and geopolitical concerns, including exploitation of surrogate mothers and potential misuse of birthright citizenship.
China's demographic crisis and strict population policies have contributed to the trend, as wealthy individuals seek to build large families abroad.
- Who
- Wealthy Chinese parents, particularly billionaires and entrepreneurs
- What
- Using US surrogacy to have children who gain American citizenship
- When
- Practice has expanded significantly over the past decade
- Where
- United States (legal in several states), China (banned)
- Why
- To gain American citizenship for children and potentially for parents, exploit permissive US laws, and build large families
- Number of Children
- Over 100 per father in some cases
- Cost per Child
- Rs 1–2 crore
- Surrogacy Legality in China
- Banned since 2001
- Surrogacy Legality in US
- Legal in several states
- Citizenship for Children
- Automatic US citizenship by birth
- Notable Figure
- Xu Bo, Chinese entrepreneur
- China's Population Policy
- One-child policy (1979-2016), now allows three children
- China's Population
- 1.4 billion, facing demographic crisis