Campaign aims to bring children home

BEIJING - Chinese authorities will prohibit child begging and performing on the streets and have pledged to send all vagrant children home, according to an upcoming campaign.

With the aim of returning vagrant children to normal lives, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has ordered a national search for vagrant children, who are often kidnapped and coerced by criminal gangs into stealing and begging.

Dou Yupei, deputy minister of civil affairs, said on Tuesday at a conference that civil affairs authorities will cooperate in the campaign with public security departments and local communities.