The interconnecting ‘love tunnel’ where they would rendezvous for baby-making during the small annual window when Tian Tian was in season caught the nation’s imagination.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12788517/Eats-shoots-leaves-Scotlands-pandas-arrived-blaze-publicity-hopes-high-patter-tiny-feet-return-China-12-years-repeatedly-failing-conceive-20m-gamble-likely-pay-off.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito

Women have protested against being thought of as “baby-making machines,” and gender has already been characterized as the country’s “sharpest social fault line.”

Source: https://time.com/6265842/south-korea-birth-rate-military-service-exemption/