(1) Improve the laws and regulations for children's protection and the legal protection mechanisms.

(2) Implement the laws and regulations on child protection and further carry out the principles of "Children First" and "Children's Maximum Interests."

(3) Safeguard children's birth and identity registration according to law.

(4) Keep in check the increasingly skewed sex ratio at birth, and strive for a rational sex ratio at birth.

(5) Improve the present system to ensure that children receive effective guardianship.

(6) Popularize legal education among primary and middle school students to raise their legal awareness and self-protection consciousness and abilities.

(7) Prevent and Crack down on infringing wents upon children's personal rights and prohibit all forms of violence against children.

(8) Protect children's legal property rights and interests in accordance with law.

(9) Prohibit child laborers (aged under 16) and protect them from economic exploitation.

(10) Guarantee children's access to timely and effective legal aid and judicial assistance according to law.

(11) Prevent juveniles from committing illegal and Crimes, and reduce the proportion of juvenile delinquents among criminal offenders.

(12) The judicial system should make further efforts to meet the special needs of children's physical and mental development.

Strategies and Measures:

(1) Continue to improve the legal system of child protection. Promote legislation on children's welfare, preschool education and family education. Review, amend and abolish regulations and policies incommensurate with child protection. Strengthen the practicability of laws and regulations regarding child protection.

(2) Enhance publicity and education on law. Raise the legal awareness, sense of responsibility and capability of families, schools, personages of all circles and of children themselves with respect to protection of children's rights.

(3) Strengthen law enforcement supervision. Specify the subject of law enforcement, reinforce legal responsibilities, and carry out special inspections on law enforcement on a regular basis. Enhance the knowledge and skills training of law enforcement personnel on the protection of children's rights and interests in order to raise their awareness and the level of law enforcement in this regard.

(4) Further implement regulation on registration at birth. Raise the birth registration awareness among people of all circles, and improve relevant rules and policies. Strengthen coordination and information sharing between different departments, and simplify and standardize the registration procedure.

(5) Eliminate discrimination against girls. Advocate gender equality concept and raise public's awareness. Establish an interest-oriented mechanism in favor of girls and their families, and improve the economic and social status of rural families with daughters. Crack down on non-medical purposes of fetus sex determination through type-B ultrasonic scanning and sex-selective pregnancy termination.

(6) Establish and improve the system of child guardianship and supervision. Raise the obligation consciousness of parents and other guardians, and improve and implement the recusal system through which to withdraw parents' or other guardians' qualification as guardians should they fail properly to perform this role or seriously infringe upon the rights and interests of children under their guardianship. Progressively establish a guardianship system that is based on families, guaranteed by the supervision of communities, schools and other relevant units and personnel, and supplemented by State custody.

(7) Protect children's personal rights. Strengthen the comprehensive management of public order, crack down on rape, abduction, kidnapping, maltreatment and abandonment that infringe upon children's personal rights; as well as on the criminal offenses of organizing, coercing and inveigling children into committing delinquencies. Deal severely with the crimes of using children for pick-pocketing, begging, commercial acrobatic performance, and prostitution. Protect children from all forms of sexual abuse. Establish mechanisms on the prevention, mandatory reporting, response, emergency rescue, treatment and counseling on cases of violence against children. Mobilize resources to explore and establish children's shelters. Enhance publicity on laws on the prevention and punishment related to child trafficking. Raise the "anti-abduction" awareness and ability of both children and parents, and provide physical and psychological rehabilitation services and appropriate placements for rescued children. Prohibit recruiting children aged below 16 for work and prohibit job introductions for children under 16. Establish a sound monitoring and penalty mechanism to ban illegal employment of child labor. Strictly implement national regulations on protecting juvenile laborers of 16 to 17 years of age, and prohibit assignment to these laborers of heavy, toxic, harmful or dangerous work or jobs. Protect the privacy of children in accordance with the law.

(8) Strengthen protection of children's property rights and interests. Safeguard children's rights to property proceeds, property bestowals, intellectual property, and inheritance and independent control over property within a certain purview, according to law.

(9) Improve the legal aid and judicial assistance mechanism for children. Further expand the coverage of legal aid to children and improve the legal aid network for children. Strengthen the grassroots legal aid working group, support and encourage grassroots legal service organizations, social organizations and public institutions in using their own resources to provide children with legal aid, so as to ensure children obtain in judicial proceedings efficient and fast legal services and judicial assistance.

(10) Promote the establishment and improvement of judiciary organs geared specifically to minors. Implement the Law on the Protection of Minors and explore ways of professionalizing the proceedings of cases involving minors. Accelerate the establishment in public security sectors of special agencies or specialized personnel for juvenile cases.

(11) Improve handling of children suspected of criminal and illegal acts. Uphold the policy of educating, helping and redeeming and adhering to the principle of education in the first place and punishment as subsidiary by exerting lighter punishments on child suspects or even exempting them from punishment according to law. Abide by the principle that all criminal cases involving children below the age of 16 should be heard in private sessions, and that cases involving children over the age of 16 should be heard generally in private sessions in accordance with relevant laws, so as to respect and protect children's legitimate rights and interests. Juvenile offenders undergoing detention or serving prison terms should be housed separately from adult offenders. Minors in reeducation through custody or labor, and juvenile drug abusers who are forced to accept compulsive isolated drug rehabilitation should be housed separately from adults. Juveniles discharged from detention houses, prisons or reformatories or after serving their respective terms should not be subjected to any form of discrimination upon returning to school, entering a higher grade or looking for jobs.

(12) Improve the correction system for children whose behavior constitutes serious misconduct. Establish an operating mechanism comprising the family, school and public for joint participation that exerts early involvement, effective intervention and behavior correction for such children. Enhance education and management of children whose behavior constitutes serious misconduct, explore effective ways and methods of specialized school education and behavior correction, and ensure that students in such schools enjoy equal rights in education, employment and other areas. Provide assistance and education to minors on probation for offenses and to juveniles undergoing community corrections for their illegal acts.