State targets issue of missing children

Departments and ministries under the State Council have responded to a number of public concerns in the past week, including setting up a missing children information platform, protection of consumers' rights, execution of judicial judgments, non-payment of migrant workers' wages, public recruitment in impoverished and remote areas and rural toilet renovation.

The Ministry of Public Security has recently launched the second phase of a missing children emergency information platform in Beijing. The platform allows police to instantly release information on missing children and automatically passes the information to relevant new media outlets and citizens in the surrounding areas where the children disappeared to let more citizens get access to accurate information about the missing children. According to the ministry, the platform has released 286 articles of information for missing children and found 260 missing children in the six months since it was launched.