China's supreme court is vowing to step up its efforts to punish criminals involved in the abduction and trafficking of women and children.
Du Guoqiang is deputy chief of the criminal tribunal under the Supreme People's Court.
"Abducting and selling children has led to the separation of many families and brings great psychological pain to the children and their families. The crimes also cause panic among the public, and the crime should be harshly dealt with."
Official figures show that courts across the country handled over 7,700 such cases between 2010 and 2014. Some 13-thousand people were punished and over 7 thousand of them were given sentences greater-than five year
