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Detailed explanation-1: -BEIJING–Chinese police helped a total of 10, 932 missing or abducted children return home in 2021 via a nationwide special campaign, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

Detailed explanation-2: -Estimates vary on the number of children who go missing in China every year. Some put the number at 70, 000, others say it’s closer to 200, 000. Regardless, most studies agree that only a very small number-perhaps as few as 0.1%-are ever found and reunited with their families.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chinese courts often hand down harsh punishments, including death sentences, to child traffickers. Chinese laws were strengthened in 1991 to clearly prohibit the commerce of children. Kidnapped children plus those that have been sold by their parents or orphanages end up in the baby trafficking market.