Washington, Oct. 17 -- China has remained in Tier 3 category in the United States State Department's 2026 Trafficking in Persons Report, with the assessment citing widespread forced labour concerns, arbitrary detention of ethnic and religious minorities, and insufficient efforts to combat human trafficking.

The report said the Chinese government did not fully meet the minimum standards for eliminating trafficking and was not making significant efforts to do so. It highlighted alleged forced labour in government-affiliated sectors, particularly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, ethnic Kyrgyz and members of other minority groups continued to face arbitrary detention under the stated objectives of "voc...