Panel set to target human trafficking

The government plans to set up the first national mechanism for combating trafficking to protect women and children from forced labor and prostitution.

The joint effort by 21 ministries - including the ministries of public security, labor and social security, education and supervision - aims to provide sustainable and long-term solutions to human trafficking.

It will be led by a leading group reporting directly to the State Council, Yin Jianzhong, a senior official of the anti-human trafficking office of the Ministry of Public Security, told China Daily yesterday.