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Apart from the adoption of a child or stepchild of blood relatives of the same generation who are within three generations of foreigners coming to China to adopt, China will not send children abroad for adoption,
We express our appreciation to those foreign governments and families, who wish to adopt Chinese children, for their good intention and the love and kindness they have shown,
It touches on some of the most emotionally fraught and politically charged questions of citizenship, belonging, nationalistic sentiments, and gender and racial politics,
International adoption has been proven very problematic in both donor and recipient countries, and international adoption takes a toll on both adoptees and the adoptees' biological families,
We are grateful for the desire and love of the governments and adoption families of relevant countries to adopt Chinese children,
said Mao Ning, a spokeswoman for the ministry This is, in a way, the end of an era and the closing of one of the most shameful chapters of the three and a half decades of social engineering known as one-child policy,
said Wang Feng, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine who specializes in China’s demographics We understand there are hundreds of families still pending completion of their adoption, and we sympathise with their situation.”
The state department said