This article by Marcus Roberts discusses how and why intercountry adoptions have dropped so dramatically in the recent years. 

This video tells the story of a boy in China who lives in the countryside with his grandmother while his parents are working in a factory in another city.

A woman who was adopted from China to the United States in the early 1990s has authored this moving piece for Foreign Policy, detailing her search for her birth family, and the many birth families she met along the way who miss and long for information on their “lost,” or “abandoned” daughters.

The Chinese government will be conducting its first comprehensive survey on left-behind rural children, says this article from the New York Times.

An estimated 61 million children are "left behind" by their migrant parents in China. The Chinese government has recently issued new guidelines to protect children in rural areas whose parents have moved to cities to work.

This study revealed, through their narrations, the changes in the lived experiences of children who resided in residential childcare services regarding the going home process in a Chinese context. 

This short video entitled "The Village" documents the work that Care for Children has done in Luquan, Kunming in China to help transition children away from orphanages and into families. Fifty three families from the village in Luquan have taken in 166 orphans--almost all of whom have physical or mental disabilities--from the Kunming orphanage. These children are now living with families and receiving the love and contact they had not previously received in the orphanage. 

This article describes China's plan to offer residency status to some of the millions of migrant workers who have moved from rural areas to cities in recent decades.

In this letter to the editor, the authors express their support for the continued use of “baby hatches” in China. 

According to this article from Channel News Asia, China has recently updated its rules regarding the adoption of abandoned or trafficked children, allowing a child to be adopted if authorities do not find parents or guardians during a year-long se