{"id":1364323,"date":"2022-03-08T09:41:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1364323"},"modified":"2022-03-08T09:41:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:41:20","slug":"china-pushes-dna-database-to-allegedly-aid-missing-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-pushes-dna-database-to-allegedly-aid-missing-children\/","title":{"rendered":"China Pushes &#039;DNA Database&#039; to Allegedly Aid Missing Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-pushes-dna-database-to-allegedly-aid-missing-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1364323&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Liu Jiacheng, a member of China\u2019s National Committee of the Chinese People\u2019s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), recently submitted a proposal to the body suggesting Beijing help fight human trafficking by establishing a \u201cnationwide DNA database for kindergartens and primary schools as soon as possible,\u201d the <em>Global Times<\/em> reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Liu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1254126.shtml\">submitted<\/a> his proposal\u00a0ahead of the CPPCC\u2019s second plenary meeting, which took place on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/20220307\/41d205245b144390b5dc565f4305e69c\/c.html\">March 7<\/a> amid the backdrop of the annual session of China\u2019s national legislature. The Chinese Communist Party\u2019s rubber-stamp legislature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/20220305\/356aa578148a44dda4872934579ed478\/c.html\">holds<\/a> a weeklong session each year that includes meetings of its top\u00a0political advisory bodies, such as the CPPCC.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Liu detailed his DNA database scheme to the Chinese government\u2019s propaganda newspaper,\u00a0the <em>Global Times<\/em>, on March 6, saying he suggested the plan require \u201cstudents in kindergartens and primary schools to register their DNA data when they are enrolled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DNA archives will be submitted to the public security department for collective storage into the database. Children who do not have DNA files will not be admitted to schools. When students transfer to another school, they also need to submit their DNA files,\u201d Liu said.<\/p>\n<p>The Communist Party adviser implied that parents who refuse to comply with the hypothetical DNA database would face increased scrutiny as suspected criminals.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf some parents reject uploading their children\u2019s information, they would be a key target for police to find out whether the children are abducted,\u201d Liu told the <em>Global Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those families who are willing to register DNA data but cannot afford the fees, the local government could offer proper subsidies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ruling Communist Party <a href=\"http:\/\/english.www.gov.cn\/policies\/policywatch\/202105\/06\/content_WS609343c4c6d0df57f98d912a.html\">established<\/a> a limited DNA database in 2009 with the goal of combatting human trafficking. The existing program includes only the DNA of suspected victims of abduction and samples voluntarily submitted by their relatives. Some Chinese government advisers, like Liu, believe this limited DNA bank is no longer sufficient to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1253690.shtml\">tackle<\/a> China\u2019s human trafficking problem.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Global Times<\/em> reports that trafficking cases as tracked by the Ministry of Public Security has actually decreased in recent years: \u201cIn 2021, cases of trafficking in women and children dropped by 88.3 percent, compared with 2013. In particular, the number of cases of children being stolen or abducted is less than 20 every year on average.\u201d But some recent cases in the last few months <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1253690.shtml\">attracted<\/a>\u00a0\u201cintense public attention,\u201d causing the ministry to focus on the problem again.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper noted that trafficking is especially rampant in \u201careas with serious imbalances of sex ratios at birth in the past two decades.\u201d China\u2019s \u201cone-child policy\u201d that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/06\/22\/chinese-province-begins-restricting-abortions-one-child-rule-sinks-economy\/\">limited<\/a> many families to a single child began in 1980 and ended in 2015. Cultural preference for sons led to a skewed male-female population, as many baby girls were killed through abortion or other means, or adopted out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies to the National People\u2019s Congress related to the <em>Global Times<\/em> that cultural factors in rural areas, including lax law enforcement, was also to blame. \u201cThe patriarchal system in some uncultured regions\u201d leads citizens to rationalize \u201cthe existence of trafficked people in the family.\u201d It was also noted that village officials \u201cknow of but ignore\u201d human trafficking cases.<\/p>\n<p>CPPCC National Committee member Liu Hongyu told the <em>Global Times<\/em> on Sunday he has suggested the Communist Party oversee \u201ccompulsory DNA testing for household registration, or hukou.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another CPPCC National Committee member named Gao Yanming proposed \u201cadding the DNA information of infants and mothers in medical birth certificates and gradually establishing a DNA database for the whole population [of China].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe database could help police find a lost child quickly and put an end to the child-trafficking problem,\u201d Gao argued. Officials did not explain how knowing a child\u2019s DNA would help them \u201cfind\u201d the child, other than Liu\u2019s suggestion that parents who refused registering their children\u2019s DNA would be suspected of being child traffickers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liu Jiacheng, a member of China\u2019s National Committee of the Chinese People\u2019s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), recently submitted a proposal to the body suggesting Beijing help fight human trafficking by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}