Public helps track down missing children

More than 90 percent of the missing children whose details were shared on an innovative web platform over the past six months have been located, the Ministry of Public Security announced on Wednesday.

The Tuanyuan platform - or Reunion, as it is commonly known - sends notifications via several social media apps to people in and around an area where a child has vanished.

Since May 15, when the program was launched, police have input the details of 286 children into the system. So far, 260 of them have been accounted for, the ministry said at a media gathering in Beijing.