Chinese authorities have arrested over 600 people and freed 178 children as part of a nationwide crackdown on child trafficking.<br/> In southeastern China, police raid houses - arresting people suspected of buying and selling children.<br/> Here, police rescue a baby boy.<br/> This suspect allegedly paid around 9,000 US dollars for a trafficker to find him a child - at the time of purchase, the boy was only 20 days old.<br/> The arrests took place on November 30, and China's Ministry of Public Security heralded the crackdown "one of the biggest victories for anti-trafficking".<br/> Child trafficking is rampant in China, where population control policies have bolstered a traditional bias for male offspring, and have at times resulted in abortions, killings or abandonment of girls.<br/> Travis Brecher, Reuters
