Child Abduction for “Social Adjustment” by the Chinese Government

“Exam adjustment, job adjustment, even children can be reassigned under the name of ‘social adjustment’ by the authorities. In 1990, a couple from Quanzhou, Guangxi, had their 1-year-old son taken away. Thirty-two years later, a notice from the local Health Commission responded by saying that the child had been taken away for ‘social adjustment,’ causing an uproar on the internet.

Tang Yueying, now 69, and her husband Deng Zhensheng had four sons and three daughters. Their youngest child, born in 1989, would be 33 years old if still alive. Tang Yueying told Huashang News that she was staying in a hotel in Quanzhou County with her 15-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son when three women and two men suddenly took her son from her. The couple searched for 32 years but found no results. They went to the local government’s petition department to request an investigation into the abduction. On July 5 this year, a notice from the Quanzhou County Health Commission titled ‘Notice of Non-Acceptance of Petition Matters’ circulated online. It stated that the couple’s child, being the seventh child which violated the population control policy, was taken away for ‘social adjustment’ by the county, and that there was no child trafficking involved. The notice also mentioned that no records were kept regarding the whereabouts of the children taken for social adjustment and that the petition matter would not be processed.

Moreover, the notice mentioned that given the severe population control situation in the 1990s, the policy of ‘controlling population quantity and improving population quality’ was strictly enforced. The decision to reassign one of the children was made by the county committee and government based on the severe family planning work situation at the time.

Treating children as commodities, is openly illegal under the guise of a county committee and government decision, legitimizing human trafficking behavior.

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