Table 1.

General information on the sample surrogacy lawsuits.

No.	Year	Court	Type		Cause of action
1	2004	Basic People's Court of Shunde District of Foshan, Guangdong Province	Commercial	Traditional	Sole care and control
2	2008	Basic People's Court of Jiangnan District of Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Minority Autonomous Region	Commercial	Traditional	Sole care and control
3	2009	A basic people's court in Guangdong Province	Commercial	Gestational	Parenthood
4	2009	Basic People's Court of Yujiang County of Yingtan, Jiangxi Province	Altruistic	Traditional	Sole care and control maintenance
5	2010	Basic People's Court of Xingyang, Henan Province	Commercial	Traditional	Sole care and control
6	2010	Basic People's Court of Shihe District of Xinyang, Henan Province	Commercial	Traditional	Breach of surrogacy contract
7	2010	Basic People's Court of Dingcheng District of Changde, Henan Province	Commercial	Gestational	Parenthood Sole care and control
8	2011	Basic People's Court of Chengzhong District of Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Minority Autonomous Region	Commercial	Traditional	Visitation
9	2012	Basic People's Court of Pingnan County of Guigang, Guangxi Zhuang Minority Autonomous Region	Commercial	Traditional	Visitation
10	2012	Basic People's Court of Siming District of Xiamen, Fujian Province	Commercial	Traditional	Sole care and control maintenance