Xu Bo, founder of Chinese gaming company ‘Duoyi Network,’ calls himself ‘China’s First Father’ and claims he aims to revitalize the nation by having children without getting married. Recently, The Wall Street Journal reported that Xu Bo fathered over 100 children in the US through surrogacy. His ex-girlfriend, Tang Jing, even alleged that he has ‘at least 300 children’ in total.
Xu Bo is said to be aiming to establish a ‘super family’ in the US. The report states that his actions have attracted the attention of the US judicial system, which has rejected Xu Bo’s applications for parental rights to several unborn surrogate children. Duoyi Network issued a statement admitting that Xu Bo currently has more than 100 children, but among them, only 12 were born via US surrogacy, criticizing The Wall Street Journal’s reporting as inaccurate.
The report states that a clerk under Judge Perlman at the Family Law Court of the Los Angeles County Superior Court in California noticed the same name appearing multiple times in the surrogacy applications.
Upon investigation, the court found that Xu Bo was seeking parental rights for at least four unborn children; in addition, he has already fathered or is about to father at least eight children via surrogacy.
The report quotes attendees of the hearing as saying that Judge Perlman summoned Xu Bo in the summer of 2023, and Xu responded via video, stating he hoped to have around 20 children in the US to take over his business, and he only wanted boys because he believes they are superior. Xu also admitted that, due to his busy work schedule, he had never been to Los Angeles, and some of the babies were being cared for by American nannies after birth while waiting for documents to return to China. Xu admitted he has yet to meet some of his children.
According to these sources, Xu Bo’s answers at the time shocked those present, because surrogacy in the US is meant as a way to form a family, but Xu’s own statements clearly showed he was not interested in being a parent.
In the end, the judge rejected Xu Bo’s applications for parent-child relationships. This ruling left the surrogacy-born children for whom he paid in a predicament of unclear legal status.
The report says that in aggressively fathering children through surrogacy in the US, Xu Bo aims to establish a huge family clan and has even claimed that he wants his children to marry the descendants of American billionaire Elon Musk, in order to build a transnational ‘family dynasty.’
●Admits to Over 100 Children, Only 12 in the US
Duoyi Network replied to The Wall Street Journal by email, stating that it would not accept any interview requests from anyone.
On the 16th, Duoyi Network released a statement accusing The Wall Street Journal of quoting out of context and severely distorting the original meaning. The company said that, according to an earlier statement regarding Tang Jing, ‘Since starting surrogacy in the US, after years of effort, it is actually just over a hundred,’ but the above media had twisted this into more than 100 surrogate children in the US.
The statement acknowledges that, among Xu Bo’s more than a hundred children born over ‘years of effort,’ only 12 were born in the United States.