Job blacklist takes aim at sex abusers

Employers would have to check before hiring in 11 fields dealing with children

China will expand across the country a pilot program in Shanghai that bans child-sex offenders from taking jobs close to children to better protect juveniles, a senior official with the Supreme People's Procuratorate said.

People who have criminal records of sexual assault or indecency toward minors will be blacklisted and banned from working in 11 vocations, Zheng Xinjian, director of the SPP's special office for handling cases involving minors, told China Daily.