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    SOCIETY

    Jun 03, 2021 3 minutes

    Child Welfare

    China’s child welfare services will be restructured; the reform will see its completion by 2025, with the focus of the service system shifted to minor protection, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on May 25 at a press conference.

    Child welfare services in China have been dedicated to sheltering and supporting underage children whose guardianship has been assumed by the civil affairs authorities, the ministry said, noting that many of the facilities now lie idle as the number of orphans dropped 66 percent from the 2012 figure to the current 190,000.

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