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The article reports on efforts by adoptive parents of Chinese girls to find siblings of the children in the U.S. The article includes the case of Annie Bernstein and Rennee Surrey who were adopted by parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Boynton Beach, Florida respectively. The two families connected through a website for adoptive parents and became friends over the years. After noticing many similarities between the children, they had DNA tests done to confirm their suspicion that the girls were fraternal twins. INSET: HOW GOOD ARE DNA TESTS?.

Reports the life insurance settlement received by Chinese twins from Kangtai Life Insurance Co. Amount received by the twins; Information on the insurance payment.

Focuses on an increase in the number of women giving birth to twins in the village of Bazhou in China. Legal and natural way out of the government's one-child policy; Possible result of two large, frequently twin-bearing families living in close physical proximity.

Reports on the birth of Shanghai's first test-tube twins in a hospital for women and children of the city in China. Weight of the twins; Survival rate of test-tube babies; Information on the technique used in the experiment.

Reports that Huang Yan, a woman from Guizhou Province working as a laborer in Wendeng City, Shandong Province, gave birth to twin girls who were delivered on different days.

Focuses on three-year old Chinese twin brother and sister, Zhuang Zezheng and Zhuang Zefang. Confirmation by the Shanghai Great World Guinness Organization that the Zhuangs are the youngest readers in the world; Profile on the Zhuangs.