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A woman pushes a stroller with a little girl, in a park in Shanghai on April 2, 2023.  © Reuters

XING DANDI, XU WEN and KELLY WANG, Caixin

In the months that followed her marriage last September, Lizi received repeated phone calls from her community. They had one question: "Are you pregnant yet?"

Already frustrated by the pressure to have a child coming from her relatives, the young woman living in East China's Fujian province finally told the caller she had no plans to get pregnant this year.

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