Temporary parents will need to be between 30 and 60 years old

Plans are under way to enable local families in Guangzhou to foster homeless children once they receive special training and pass strict inspections. Guangdong's provincial capital will be the first city to allow families to foster homeless juveniles.

"Currently most of the city's homeless children are sent to welfare homes when they are found or rescued," Wen Yanmei, director of the publicity department of the Guangzhou Bureau of Civil Affairs, told China Daily on Tuesday.