Had any bulky deliveries recently? If so, and had you purchased from one particular online retailer, then you may well have noticed the latest innovation in attempts to locate missing children in China; printing their essential information on the inside of the box.
最近有没有大件发货？如果是这样，并且您是从某个特定的在线零售商处购买的，那么您很可能已经注意到在中国寻找失踪儿童的最新创新；将其重要信息打印在盒子内部。
The new initiative is down to that behemoth of online commerce in China, Tmall, formerly Taobao Mall. With millions of boxes being sent out every day, the system theoretically punches sufficiently high to be able to make a dent in the numbers of missing children.
这项新举措归功于中国电子商务巨头天猫（原淘宝商城）。由于每天有数百万个箱子被发出，理论上该系统的打击力度足以减少失踪儿童的数量。
On the box, a photo of a missing child is accompanied by their name; gender; date of birth; date, time and place of disappearance; and any other pertinent information that may assist in locating them. Such may also perhaps jog someone’s memory from all those years ago.
盒子上有一张失踪儿童的照片，并附有他们的名字；性别;出生日期；失踪的日期、时间和地点；以及任何其他可能有助于找到它们的相关信息。这也可能会唤起某人多年前的记忆。
Just as anywhere, however, there are a myriad of methods employed in locating those who have disappeared in China; some big, some small. And it’s the simplicity of the Tmall initiative which provides for dramatic contrast with the State’s high-tech solutions.
然而，就像在任何地方一样，在中国寻找失踪人员的方法有很多种。有些大，有些小。天猫举措的简单性与国家的高科技解决方案形成了鲜明的对比。
Tuanyuan (Reunion), rolled out by the Ministry of Public Security of China in 2016, is one such success story.
中国公安部于 2016 年推出的“团圆”就是这样一个成功案例。
The platform works by sharing the information of missing children through push notifications sent to users near the point of disappearance. Notifications are sent to users farther afield if initial searches fail. The system is quite the success story; Tuanyuan has helped to find 4,707 lost children in the last 5 years.
该平台的工作原理是通过向接近失踪点的用户发送推送通知来共享失踪儿童的信息。如果初始搜索失败，通知会发送给更远的用户。该系统是一个相当成功的故事；过去5年，团圆已帮助寻找4,707名走失儿童。
But Taobao’s sticky fingers were involved in that too. An update to the system in November of 2016 saw it join forces with Baidu and QQ to expand the platform’s reach, reported Reuters at the time.
但淘宝的粘手指也参与其中。据路透社当时报道，该系统于 2016 年 11 月进行了更新，与百度和 QQ 联手扩大了该平台的覆盖范围。
Then there is the nationwide DNA database of the parents of missing children. It’s high tech, but it’s simple too. After children go missing, their parents’ DNA are registered in the police system. Whenever missing children are found, their DNA are entered into the system and matches sought.
还有全国失踪儿童父母的DNA数据库。这是高科技，但也很简单。孩子失踪后，他们父母的 DNA 会被登记在警察系统中。每当找到失踪儿童时，他们的 DNA 都会被输入系统并进行匹配。
The database was highlighted in July of this year after a man’s 24-year-long search for his son, which ended after it was able to confirm the father’s suspicions as to the true identity of the now 26-year old, reported the Global Times.
据《环球时报》报道，今年 7 月，一名男子对儿子进行了长达 24 年的搜寻，最终证实了父亲对儿子现年 26 岁的真实身份的怀疑，搜寻工作结束。
While the family’s reunion brought a tear to the eye of the nation, the database has also managed to locate 2,609 other missing children within just 7 months.
虽然这个家庭的团聚让全国人民热泪盈眶，但该数据库还在短短 7 个月内成功找到了其他 2,609 名失踪儿童。
There are plenty smaller initiatives out there too. Baobeihuijia (Baby Come Home), a non-profit online platform collecting and providing information relating to missing children, has worked with several retailers in recent years.
还有很多较小的举措。宝宝回家是一个收集和提供失踪儿童相关信息的非营利在线平台，近年来与多家零售商合作。
In 2019, a household supplies shop, operating in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, began placing small cards with information about missing children inside each and every delivery package it sent. The shop’s proprietors’ also paid for the initiative themselves, which included two additional salaries to run the service.
2019年，一家在江苏和浙江省经营的家居用品店开始在每一个寄出的包裹中放置写有失踪儿童信息的小卡片。该商店的业主还自己支付了这项计划的费用，其中包括运行该服务的两笔额外工资。
There was also the bottled-water company in Shandong Province that featured photos and information of missing children on its products’ packaging, again in cooperation with Baobeihuijia.
山东省的一家瓶装水公司也与宝贝惠家合作，在其产品包装上印有失踪儿童的照片和信息。
Estimates for the number of missing children in China vary wildly, but it is thought to perhaps be as many as 70,000. Last year, Baobeihuijia revealed that more than 48,000 families had registered on its website.
对中国失踪儿童人数的估计差异很大，但据认为可能多达 7 万名。去年，宝贝会家透露，已有超过48000个家庭在其网站上注册。
