The conditions for an Overseas Chinese, Hong Kong citizen, Macao citizen, Taiwan citizen or Shanghai citizen to adopt an orphan who is supported by a social orphanage and whose natural parents are not known are as follows:

(1) either of the couple is at least 30 years old;

(2) the adopting party shall have the ability to support and educate the adoptee;

(3) the adopting party shall not have any diseases that are considered medically unsuitable when adopting children;

(4) the couple shall have an unanimous idea of adoption;

(5) in the case of the adopting party being a single man, if he plans to adopt a female orphan, the age gap between he and the adoptee must be at least 40 years; and

(6) the adoptee must be an orphan who is younger than 14 years of age, supported by a social orphanage and whose natural parents are not known.