Surrogate Told She Was Carrying for Single Dad Learns Baby Is Linked to Chinese Billionaire Reportedly Fathering 100+ Children

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Surrogate Told She Was Carrying for Single Dad Learns Baby Is Linked to Chinese Billionaire Reportedly Fathering 100+ Children

A California woman signed up to become a surrogate after seeing an Instagram advertisement promising $120,000. She says the agency told her the intended parent was a single father who wanted to expand his family.

Leaked documents later obtained by CBS News allegedly identified the intended father as Xu Bo, a reclusive Chinese video-game billionaire. His company, Duoyi Network, has confirmed a large surrogacy operation involving children born in the United States.

The surrogate, identified by CBS as Judy, is a single mother with a 7-year-old child. At the time, she was living with her father and hoped to get a place of her own. She signed with California-based Patriot Conceptions, whose website describes the agency as “veteran-founded.” The founder listed on the website is Haotian Bai.

Judy says she was told she was carrying for a single father. When she asked how many other surrogates he had hired, the answer reportedly came back as close to two dozen.

“That’s a lot of kids at one time,” she told CBS.

Judy said she asked to meet the intended father at least five times. She was never allowed to do so. That lack of basic information became a major concern as she learned more about the person allegedly connected to the baby she is carrying.

“The agency should’ve been very transparent from before getting matched … about who it is that you’re having a baby for and what the family is,” Judy said. “It leaves me wondering: do I even have a right to know?”

CBS News later informed Judy that the child was allegedly connected to Xu Bo. The report said she still had not been allowed to meet him. The case has put a human face on a broader debate over surrogacy, birth tourism, and the use of American soil for large international family-building operations.

The reporting also highlights the citizenship consequences. Children born in the United States are citizens at birth and retain that citizenship for life. Once eligible, they can vote and hold federal jobs. At 21, they can sponsor family members. The source report says agencies have marketed these arrangements as cheaper than an EB-5 investor visa.

Xu Bo is the founder of Guangzhou-based Duoyi Network. A Wall Street Journal investigation reported that he had sought parental rights to multiple unborn children. In 2023, he reportedly told a California judge that he hoped to have approximately 20 U.S.-born children, primarily boys, who could eventually inherit and run his business empire.

The Journal also reported that some of Xu’s children were being raised by nannies in California while they waited for paperwork allowing them to travel to China. Xu reportedly told the court that he had not met some of the children because of his work obligations.

The exact number of children connected to Xu remains disputed. His former partner, Tang Jing, who is involved in a custody and money dispute with him in China, has publicly claimed that he has as many as 300 children.

After the Journal’s December 2025 investigation, Duoyi pushed back on the 300 figure. However, the company confirmed that after “many years of effort” through U.S. surrogacy, Xu had “only a little over 100” children.

In a later statement cited by CBS, Xu disputed the larger totals and said he has custody of 12 children born through surrogacy in the United States. He has also posted a photograph showing roughly 100 young children seated in rows.

Days later, Xu issued a statement in Chinese saying he “believes in the philosophy that more children bring more blessings.” He also said he wanted his actions to “benefit the long-term development of the Chinese nation.”

The case was also addressed in a March report by The Gateway Pundit’s Antonio Graceffo, titled “China’s Infiltration of the U.S.: CCP Surrogacy and Birth Tourism.” That report noted that Xu’s company had confirmed “only a little over 100” U.S. surrogate children, most of whom he has never met.

CBS News broke the news to Judy through its reporting. The story has raised serious ethical and national-security questions about an American surrogate being given limited information about the intended parent and about the scale of Xu’s reported family-building operation.

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