Chinese women spend big on beauty surgery

 19-Dec-16, China Daily

When it comes to surgical procedures to enhance beauty, Chinese women are twice as generous as their global peers, according a report.

Image: Feng Haiyong / China Daily

The survey found that Chinese women spent the equivalent of about RMB581 (USD84) per month. That's more than twice the global average of RMB254, and RMB145 higher than the second group on the list - women from Korea.

Wang Danru, a plastic surgeon from No 9 People's Hospital affiliated to the medical college at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, said Chinese women are displaying an increasing interest in a range of surgical procedures, mainly to look prettier, rather than fighting aging.

"I would say Chinese patients are the most dramatic," said Woffles Wu, a prominent plastic surgeon in Singapore. His clinic receives 30 to 40 patients from China every month. A few years ago, the number was in single digits, he said.

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