'Ban minors from getting a cosmetic surgery', says worried Chinese legislator

March 08, 2019:

China’s plastic surgery industry is booming but it’s not all pretty, especially for minors.

Now, the country’s legislators have moved a proposal at the ongoing National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s legislature, to ban minors from getting a cosmetic surgery where it’s not required to correct a defect or to remove a scar.

The industry is worth billions of dollars in China ($33.4 billion in 2018).

'SoYoung', a popular plastic surgery portal, said more than 20 million people in China went in for cosmetic surgeries last year, of which more than 40% were between 20 & 25-years-old.

What has worried China’s lawmakers is that going-under-the-knife for fashion is becoming more popular among teenagers - many want big eyes, a sharp chin, and a small face.

The uglier side of the trend comprises stories about “...failed plastic surgeries that cause difficult-to-repair damage, or infections, and sometimes even death”.

“Statistics from SoYoung show that people born after the year 2000 have become a booming group in China’s cosmetic surgery market, accounting for nearly 19% of people going under the knife,” a report in China Plus, China Radio International’s overseas English portal, said.

An NPC Deputy and a High-School teacher from northeast China’s Liaoning province with 30 years of experience, Wang Jiajuan, noticed a trend among her students that made her worried.

Wang found that some of her students have had double-eyelid surgery while others have had tattooed eyebrows and eyeliner - surgeries that are unnecessary and can cause irreversible damage.

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