When Wei Qiang called home on March 15 and nobody answered, he was not too worried. But when nobody picked up the phone three days later, Wei knew something was wrong and he called his neighbors to check on his home—where his 44-year-old mother and 1-year-old daughter lived by themselves.
The tragedy was uncovered at Wei’s home in Suzhou City, Anhui Province in eastern China—Wei’s mother had died and his daughter was on her last breath, reported state-run media Guangdong News on March 25. After emergency care at the hospital the child lived.
Like Wei and his wife, millions of rural Chinese people are migrant workers who work in the cities while leaving their children behind in rural villages in the care of their senior relatives.
These children are coined the “left-behind” children, and, according to Chinese regime mouthpiece Xinhua on March 13, there are currently 60 million such children in China.
