Recording incidents of cross-provincial kidnapping and forced repatriation, often related to family control and arranged marriages.
On August 26, an 18-year-old girl from Gansu went to Shenzhen to work to escape an arranged marriage. Her parents found her address through the local police station and hired people to forcibly take her back to Lanzhou across provinces. After Shenzhen bus drivers noticed something unusual, they called the police. The police identified the suspects and rescued the girl in Lanzhou across provinces.