Justice is served for the families and friends of several abducted infants and children as the Supreme People's Court announced that Tan Yongzhi has been executed on Friday. 

Tan kidnapped 22 infants and children between February 2008 and April 2014. Most of the kidnapping occurred between Yunan province in Southwest China and Henan in Central China. 

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The court said that Tan's properties were seized by the government. 

"The large number of children he kidnapped seriously damaged children's rights, which is why he was condemned to death by the Zhengzhou Intermediate People's Court in Henan and the top court approved the execution," the court said. 

Tan was sentenced to death in 2014. He is said to have been the ringleader of a notorious 37-member gang that abducted and sold children. According to China News Service, the government have been unable to find biological parents of the kidnapped children. 

China's courts are known for being very strict and meting out heavy penalties to child kidnappers and traffickers. The country's judicial bodies promised to intensify crackdowns against such criminals in 2010. The number of child kidnapping cases has been slowly dwindling since then.

More than 1,900 cases of women and children abduction were solved and 2,800 criminals were punished in 2012, while the number of cases dropped to 853 last year. 

Under the one-child policy, child trafficking was a booming underground business in the country as many couples were forced to make the difficult decision between selling their child or paying a fine if they exceeded the number of children legally allowed in a family. The government's recent regulation allowing all couples to have two children is expected to reduce child trafficking.

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