Authorities in Shandong Province last month arrested 15 members of the group that pays the women from various regions in China to give birth to children that they then sell to others, among others, to couples who can not afford to have children but wanted to have children.
Government-run newspaper, Global Times, said authorities had tracked down 13 babies but still searching for four other infants who are still missing.
"Working as migrant workers here, baby sellers families mainly from poor areas.'s Husband went to work and the wives sell their babies for money," said police investigator Chen Qingwei.
Police could not immediately be reached for comment on Friday. Couples without children in China now allowed to adopt children from various sources, which has resulted in the development of an underground market of child trafficking.
Many academics blame the problem on one-child policy strict government which resulted in a baby boy to be special for many families wanted a male heir.
Kidnapping and trafficking case has sparked public concern in China following a series of scandals.
In 2007, authorities discovered that thousands of people have been forced to hard labor in mines across the nation, in a scandal that shocked the nation.
More recently, police said in July that they have freed 89 children in a crackdown operation performed on human trafficking this year after a report in the network on which sparked widespread public anger penjulikan.
Police also arrested 369 people in the operation, which aims to stop a "major criminal activity" involved in the trafficking of children in 14 provinces, they said at the time
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