The website has a photo and brief details on each of the 60 children profiled

The Babies Looking for Home website is part of a nationwide government crackdown on the widespread trafficking of women and children.

The website includes short physical descriptions of each child, the date they were rescued and a contact number for the police station or welfare official in charge of their case.

The youngest child profiled appears to be just a few months old, and most of them were boys.

State media have reported hundreds of rescues and arrests since the campaign began in April, but the new website shows that at least 60 children were yet to be reunited with their families.

In a statement announcing the new website on Tuesday, the public security ministry said that 2,008 children had been rescued between April and October.

Some of the older children profiled appear to have been rescued years ago and it was not clear from the website when exactly they were found by the authorities.

Aggressive campaign

"It's the first time the ministry has published data about children whose parents couldn't be found through the national DNA database," lawyer Zhang Zhiwei, a volunteer with Baby Come Home non-governmental organisation, was quoted as saying by China Daily.

China's traditional preference for male heirs has driven a thriving market in baby boys, who fetch a considerably higher price than girls.

Girls and women are also abducted and often used as labourers or as brides for unwed sons.

Some families sell their female babies in order to try for a boy, since the country's one-child policy limits most families to having one child.

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