Shelters told to help kids return home

BEIJING - Shelters for homeless people throughout the country are being called upon to work closely with their counterparts in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and send children home who are from that part of the country.

The call was made by a senior official from the Ministry of Civil Affairs on Wednesday as part of a national campaign against child abduction.

The civil affairs departments in all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities are required to set up at least one child rescue center to offer temporary shelter to displaced children and must later arrange to transport them back to Xinjiang, Dou Yupei, vice-minister of civil affairs, said at a conference in Beijing.