China builds database of migrant children to improve social services

Guo Yuqiang, director of the child welfare department at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said on Wednesday that the central government's goal is to have an accurate list of children in need of care by 2026.

The aim was also to achieve visible results in protecting the mental and physical health of these children by 2035.

Gao said the central government has drawn up an action plan to protect migrant children, the first such plan at the national level in China.