"Nana, Where Are You?"

"Nana, where are you?" murmurs Zhang Jingxiu, a 76-old woman living in central China's Hubei Province, who has not stopped crying and lost her eyesight since last June 10, when her granddaughter was in all probability, abducted.

No clues to the whereabouts of the 16-year old high school student have surfaced to date despite her parents efforts to locate their daughter across several provinces. They have already spent 48,000 yuan in looking for their daughter.

Nana's parents appeared in public today on eve of launching a nationwide anti-abduction campaign which will start April 1 asking the police to do all they can to find their daughter and other abducted women and children.

According to Qian Xiongfei, an official from the Anti-Abduction Office of the Ministry of Public Security, the central leadership will keep a close eye on developments. Minister Jia Chunwang was quoted as saying at a national tele-conference that the anti- abduction drive is one of the top jobs for his ministry this year. Qian noted that advanced technology will be adopted in the campaign, including DNA-testing technology, digital technology and networking technology. DNA tests will be conducted on parents and their children who have been found to determine kinship.

Hubei province has the highest number of women and children abducted in China, according to Yu Xinmin, deputy head of the provincial general vice squad. Almost 20,000 local women and 1,600 local children have been abducted by the end of March 24, and local police have arrested 13,000 abductors.

Abducted women and children are difficult to escape from the abductors because they are taken to remote, hilly areas out of reach from most people, Yu said.

"Only by relying on local governments, police bureaus, village committees and villagers, can we do a better job in cracking down on the traffickers and rescue these women and children," he said. Reporters, including Xinhua reporters, have been assigned to cover abduction cases in Sichuan, Jiangsu, Guangdong and Hubei provinces and encourage others to help police track down criminals and their victims.

Zhu Fengqing, Nana's mother told Xinhua: "I believe the police will find my daughter. I hope this story will somehow reach Nana and let her know that her doll and books are waiting for her by her bedside."

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