The Weibo "Take Photos and Save Beggars" campaign, initiated by well-known scholar Jianrong Yu, has caused a strong reaction.

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Yujianrong's Weibo address and the Weibo address for the campaign "Casual Photography to Rescue Begging Children": http://t.sina.com.cn/1932619445

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Screenshot of the Weibo for the "Casual Photography to Rescue Begging Children" campaign: Renowned scholar Jianrong Yu initiated a campaign on Weibo called "Casual Photography to Rescue Begging Children," which has caused a strong reaction.

■ Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reporter Xueyan Luo

During the Spring Festival, the microblogs of major websites such as Sina and Tencent were very active. Netizens greeted each other via microblog, discussed the CCTV New Year's Gala, and among the countless topics, many netizens focused on the activity of rescuing begging children. At the end of January, Jianrong Yu, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, started a microblog, calling on netizens to take pictures of begging children they encounter and upload them to their microblog, which might help these children find their parents. This year’s scarves are warmer because of this attention.

Photos of 42 begging children in Shenzhen have been uploaded to Sina Weibo.

When you see a begging child on the street, take out your camera and take a picture. Write down the time, province, city, street, and other detailed information clearly, and post it on your microblog. You might rescue a trafficked child. Not long ago, Jianrong Yu, a well-known scholar and professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, initiated the "Casual Photography to Rescue Begging Children" campaign through Sina Weibo.

This campaign immediately drew a strong response from a large number of netizens. Netizens from major cities across the country, including Beijing, Shanghai, Sanya, Haikou, Changsha, Quanzhou, Xiamen, Wenzhou, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, took out their cameras and mobile phones to take pictures of the begging children and posted them on their microblogs. More than 50 photos of begging children in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou have been uploaded to microblogs, and hundreds of photos of begging children across the country have touched the hearts of millions of netizens.

Netizens in Shenzhen also actively participated. Some netizens posted photos of begging children they had taken on their microblogs, noting phrases like "please pay attention to the police" and "please media pay attention." According to preliminary statistics by the reporter, as of 4 p.m. yesterday, Shenzhen netizens had uploaded photos of 42 begging children. These children were mainly found at subway entrances, key traffic routes such as Caitian Road and Hongli Road, tourist attractions like Dongmen, Huqiangbei, Window of the World, Nanshan, and areas like Xixiang and Buji.

A netizen took a photo of a flower-selling little girl in Shenzhen's Dongmen area, which caught the attention of netizen Yangziyan. He left a comment saying: Someone has repeatedly seen this flower-selling little girl in Dongmen, both at the metro station and on Dongmen Old Street. This girl is suspected to be Zhuang Ju, who went missing in Wenzhou in 2008. He hopes that if anyone in Shenzhen sees this girl, they should report it to the police immediately and contact him. Many netizens in Shenzhen immediately joined the search for Zhuang Ju. On the evening of February 3, netizen Xiaoben Chuangyegongfang specifically went to Dongmen to wait but did not find the flower-selling little girl. Netizen Huahua encountered a group of little girls surrounding her trying to sell flowers. Her first reaction was to grab them and ask if they were Zhuang Ju, but she found out they weren't. Netizen ROYJIT expressed that he wanted to join the search for Zhuang Ju and contribute his efforts.

On Tencent and our newspaper's special microblog, topics related to rescuing begging children and "Baby Come Home" have also drawn much attention from netizens. Hundreds of photos of begging children from various places have been forwarded online, and more and more netizens are participating in this activity.

Public Security Departments across the country are paying attention to begging children.

The reporter found yesterday from the Weibo account of "Casual Photography to Rescue Begging Children" that the number of followers of this ID is increasing day by day. Many celebrities have joined, and since its establishment on January 26, it already has over 50,000 followers. Among them, the microblog accounts of public security departments from many provinces and cities have also become fans, actively paying attention and leaving messages indicating that they will follow up on the information about begging children reflected by netizens.

Nearly a hundred public security departments, including Anhui Public Security Online, Guangzhou Public Security, Shenzhen Public Security, Nanjing Metro Police, Tianjin Port Public Security Bureau, Suzhou Industrial Park Public Security Bureau, etc., have all paid attention to "Casual Photography to Rescue Begging Children". Nanjing Metro Police Officer Shi commented: The metro police force is taking action to help homeless and begging people. If metro officers discover homeless or begging individuals within the metro area, they will assist with immediate aid. If there are any criminal activities involved, they will deal with them seriously.

Interestingly, the reporter discovered through this Weibo that among the published information about begging children, some families have left comments stating that these might be their missing children, hoping to get in touch with the netizens who posted the information. One netizen used a photo of a begging boy as their Weibo avatar, which was luckily recognized by the boy's mother as her trafficked son Yang Weixin. After contacting the Quanzhou Public Security Bureau, the bureau immediately dispatched a special task force to investigate Yang Weixin's case across different regions and is still actively searching.

According to the initiator Jianrong Yu, due to the slow feedback of information, parents and public security departments often cannot contact netizens in time, missing good opportunities to rescue the children.

Netizens offer advice on better ways to rescue and protect begging children.

How to better rescue begging children has prompted many netizens to offer suggestions. Some netizens even forwarded this Weibo post to national deputies and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, hoping to draw attention during this year's National People's Congress and CPPCC sessions.

Netizen Fawei Jitang suggested legislating to prohibit children from begging, mandating the forced sheltering of any child found begging; establishing a national database of missing children, using facial recognition systems for rapid identification, etc. Netizen Zuoyeben listed characteristics of human traffickers: 1) Those who ignore a child's crying and do not feed them milk or water; 2) Men carrying babies without female accompaniment and looking suspicious; 3) Multiple women each holding an infant with someone else specifically watching the luggage; 4) Children continuously crying for their parents; 5) A man accompanied by one or more women, where the women appear frightened and uneasy. If any of these conditions apply, report it immediately.

While focusing on how to rescue begging children, some netizens also called for greater attention to their safety. Well-known Shenzhen netizen Bafen Zhai commented: Rescuing is a strict, rigorous, and serious matter. In the information age, making such a big fuss does not guarantee the safety of the photographed children but may make them even more unfortunate. This matter cannot be trendy. Loose networks are not yet capable of curbing and changing such issues.